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badinage
 [bad-n-ahzh, bad-n-ij] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | joking around |
| Synonyms: | asteism, banter, fool, joking, joshing, kidding, persiflage, raillery, repartee, ribbing, teasing |
| Main Entry: | humor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comedy, funniness |
| Synonyms: | amusement, badinage, banter, buffoonery, clowning, comicality, comicalness, drollery, facetiousness, farce, flippancy, fun, gag, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joke, joking, joyfulness, kidding, levity, lightness, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, tomfoolery, whimsy, wisecrack, wit, witticism, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | depression, drama, sadness, seriousness, tragedy, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | pleasantry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nice remark |
| Synonyms: | badinage, banter, bon mot, humor, jest, joke, joking, levity, merriment, quip, quirk, repartee, sally, squib, wit, witticism |
| Antonyms: | criticism |
Example Sentences
- Sometimes there's no harm in a little badinage among colleagues.
- The badinage feels natural precisely because directors and actors are so attentive to what bodies say that words don't.
- Chuck's many talents do not now and did not then include rough, boisterous badinage.
| Main Entry: | quip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | witty communication, often verbal |
| Synonyms: | badinage, banter, bon mot, crack, drollery, gag, gibe, insult, jeer, jest, joke, mockery, offense, pleasantry, pun, repartee, retort, riposte, sally, satire, spoof, wisecrack, witticism |
| Main Entry: | repartee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant conversation |
| Synonyms: | answer, badinage, banter, bon mot, comeback, humor, irony, persiflage, pleasantry, quip, raillery, rejoinder, reply, response, retort, riposte, sally, sarcasm, satire, wit, witticism, wittiness, wordplay |
| Antonyms: | argument, disagreement, fight |
| Main Entry: | ridicule |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contemptuous laughter at someone or something |
| Synonyms: | badinage, banter, buffoonery, burlesque, caricature, chaff, comeback, contempt, derision, dig*, disdain, disparagement, farce, foolery, gibe, irony, jab, jeer, laughter, leer, mockery, mordancy, needling, parody, parting shot, persiflage, put-on, putdown, raillery, rally, razz, rib, roast, sarcasm, sardonicism, satire, scorn, slam*, sneer*, swipe, taunt, taunting, travesty |
| Antonyms: | flattery, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fun, joking |
| Synonyms: | badinage, banter, derision, drollery, escapade, frolic, horseplay, jest, jesting, joke, jollification, jollity, kidding, laughter, merriment, mirth, mockery, mummery, nonsense, pleasantry, practical joke, raillery, scorn, teasing, tomfoolery, trifling |
| Antonyms: | seriousness |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip |
| Synonyms: | allusion, badinage, banter, blather, bombast, bunk, buzz, cant, chat, chatter, chitchat, conversation, cry, gab, grapevine, hearsay, hint, hot air, idle talk, innuendo, insinuation, jaw, jive, lip, noise, nonsense, palaver, persiflage, prose, racket, raillery, report, rot, rubbish, rumble, rumor, scuttlebutt, small talk, trash, tête-à-tête, yarn |
| Main Entry: | wit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
| Synonyms: | aphorism, badinage, banter, bon mot, burlesque, drollery, facetiousness, fun, gag, jest, jocularity, joke, lark, levity, pleasantry, practical joke, prank, pun, quip, raillery, repartee, sally, satire, trick, whimsicality, wisecrack, wittiness, wordplay |
| Antonyms: | seriousness |
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