Definition for Jesting:

• Having the character of a jest or sarcasm.

Synonyms for Jesting:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • jocose,
  • jesting.
  •facetious (adjective)
  • more punning,
  • in-decorous,
  • flippest,
  • in decorous,
  • more ironic,
  • more jesting,
  • more ridiculous,
  • most joshing,
  • most comic,
  • more joshing,
  • pulling leg,
  • most punning,
  • most capering,
  • more wisecracking,
  • pulling ones leg,
  • most sportive,
  • most wisecracking,
  • pulling one leg,
  • most jesting,
  • more capering.
  •playful (adjective)
  • more antic,
  • feeling oats,
  • most prankish,
  • more elvish,
  • feeling ones oats,
  • feeling one oats,
  • more coltish,
  • most elvish,
  • more prankish,
  • goodnatured,
  • most antic,
  • most gamesome,
  • full pep,
  • more gamesome,
  • good natured,
  • most coltish.
  •tongue-in-cheek (adjective)
  • in jest,
  • kiddingly,
  • in fun,
  • tongue-in-cheek,
  • tongue in cheek.
  •waggish (adjective)
  • most clowning,
  • more clowning.

• n.

  •banter (noun)
  • mockery,
  • repartee,
  • raillery,
  • gossip,
  • dissing.
  •buffoonery (noun)
  • wit,
  • clowning.
  •comedy (noun)
  • inter lude,
  • fun and gameses,
  • send-ups,
  • fun games,
  • wittinesses,
  • gag shows,
  • sendups,
  • inter-lude,
  • inter ludes,
  • high camps,
  • play ons,
  • slapsticks,
  • send ups,
  • fun gameses,
  • merry go rounds,
  • field days,
  • comic dramas,
  • facetiousnesses,
  • schticks,
  • inter-ludes,
  • light entertainments,
  • wisecrackings.
  •farcicality (noun)
  • farcicalnesses,
  • zaninesses.
  •fooling (noun)
  • roughhousings,
  • pre tense,
  • making lights,
  • frolickings,
  • pre-tense,
  • skylarkings,
  • non senses,
  • non-sense,
  • non sense,
  • spoofings,
  • non-senses,
  • rowdinesses,
  • pre tenses,
  • clownishnesses,
  • teasings,
  • bluffings,
  • triflings.
  •fun (noun)
  • re creations,
  • living ups,
  • dis tractions,
  • whoopees,
  • re creation,
  • re laxations,
  • dis-tractions,
  • living it ups,
  • dis-traction,
  • re-laxation,
  • living up,
  • re laxation,
  • merrymakings,
  • dis traction,
  • re-laxations,
  • clownings,
  • rompings.
  •humor (noun)
  • high spiritses.
  •humorous (noun)
  • humorous.
  •humorousness (noun)
  • humorousness.
  •humourous (noun)
  • humourous.
  •raillery (noun)
  • Asteism.
  •ridicule (noun)
  • humiliation,
  • denigration,
  • caricature,
  • contempt,
  • derision,
  • disgrace,
  • indignity,
  • roast,
  • irreverence,
  • flippancy,
  • taunt,
  • scorn,
  • irony,
  • insult,
  • abasement burlesque,
  • shame,
  • sneering,
  • travesty,
  • joke,
  • deprecation.
  •sport (noun)
  • jollifications,
  • mummery,
  • Mummeries,
  • jollification.

• v.

  •ridiculing (verb)
  • riding,
  • humiliating,
  • denigrating,
  • deprecating,
  • jeering,
  • mocking,
  • roasting,
  • Deriding,
  • Burlesquing,
  • razzing,
  • Quipping,
  • Gibing,
  • taunting,
  • scoffing,
  • Ridiculing,
  • Kidding,
  • Mimicking,
  • Ragging,
  • Caricaturing,
  • insulting.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • funny.

Antonyms for Jesting:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    humorless, unhumorous, humourless.

Jesting Sentence Examples:

• Gradually Xavier ceased his jesting and became quiet.

• But now - here all the jesting goes.