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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
Actually, indulge me one last time as I note Scott’s response to that question in a recent interview: “Dude, if you can build a Colosseum, you can flood it with f— water. Are you joking? And to get a couple of sharks in a net from the sea, are you kidding? Of course they can.”
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.
So although Trump pledged to his Madison Square Garden audience to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on his first day in office, the same act used to imprison Italian and German nationals during World War II, including refugees from the Holocaust . . . he might be kidding.
“You gotta be kidding me at this point.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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