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kidding
adjective as in teasing
noun as in badinage
noun as in banter
noun as in fooling
noun as in humor
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in jocosity
Strong matches
noun as in ludicrousness
Weak matches
- amusement
- badinage
- banter
- buffoonery
- clowning
- comedy
- comicality
- comicalness
- drollery
- drollness
- facetiousness
- farce
- farcicality
- flippancy
- fun
- funniness
- gag
- gaiety
- happiness
- high spirits
- humorousness
- jest
- jesting
- jocoseness
- jocosity
- jocularity
- joke
- joking
- joyfulness
- levity
- lightness
- playfulness
- pleasantry
- raillery
- ridiculousness
- tomfoolery
- whimsy
- wisecrack
- wit
- witticism
- wittiness
- zaniness
noun as in raillery
noun as in ribbing
Example Sentences
But she insists: “we’ve got to stop kidding ourselves and pretending abuse doesn’t happen.”
I’ll go in the bedroom and get in my bed — I’m not kidding, it could be 2 in the afternoon — and I watch trash TV for two hours.
The “Megalopolis” and “Despicable Me 4” star said she waited for Musk to say he was just kidding, but he did not.
And a once-defensive coach has turned playful with reporters, routinely kidding one about his attire.
“Then, I’m not even kidding, I started walking around my house looking for ideas.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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