Difference between Joking and Jocular

JOKING vs JOCULAR: ADJECTIVE

Synonyms See jocose.
Of the nature of or containing a joke; sportive; not serious: as, a jocular expression or style.
Given to jesting; jocose; merry; waggish: said of persons.

Toying, Playing, Gag, Lark, Prank, Comical, Fooling, Levity, Kidding, Laughing, Jocose, Humourous, Humorous, Jocular, Jesting

Affable, Wry, Sardonic, Mirthful, Droll, Amiable, Lighthearted, Sarcastic, Jovial, Jocosely, Jesting, Jocose, Humourous, Joking, Humorous

Trumped up, Hoax, Toying, Gag, Lark, Comical, Fooling, Levity, Kidding, Laughing, Jocose, Humourous, Humorous, Jocular, Jesting

Flippant, Affable, Wry, Sardonic, Mirthful, Droll, Amiable, Lighthearted, Sarcastic, Jovial, Jesting, Jocose, Humourous, Joking, Humorous

But the Lord is highly capable of joking.
The Catholic Church is not joking around: Teacher.
Joking aside everyone was incredibly supportive and complementary.
He was joking, but it stuck with me.
Mr Keene might have been joking with me.
He says, his joking demeanor now long forgotten.
All joking about size aside, it does matter.
Chacha Jan, by God I am not joking.
Joking: Although it is quite rare, joking was found to be employed in the realization of the speech act of congratulation.
The president joking, not joking, told his supporters in North Carolina to go out and try to vote twice.

Yet he would at times suddenly break through these broodings, become gay, talkative, jocular, chiefly among his own.
The puzzles are jocular but the point they make is serious.
It feels comforting to return to their jocular repartee.
Apart from journalese and vaudeville gags, the anatomical is also found in jocular literature.
The accused took this in a jocular spirit and swept it aside.
Several girls and boys receive posterial canings in a jocular atmosphere.
The sometimes outrageous, always jocular motoring show with Clarkson and chums.
Califunny a jocular or derisive name for California.
Airtight jocular joy pendants curators knobbly complex croakier.
Sometimes these disputes were of a jocular nature.