Synonyms for Jive:

• adj.

  •colloquial (adjective)
  • common,
  • street,
  • dialectal,
  • idiomatic,
  • popular,
  • conversational,
  • vernacular,
  • everyday,
  • demotic,
  • chatty.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • colloquial.

• n.

  •
  • laughter,
  • kid,
  • rib,
  • razz,
  • yodeling,
  • folk singing,
  • chanting,
  • ride,
  • chaff.
  •
  • lie,
  • invention,
  • untruth,
  • misinformation,
  • disinformation,
  • a tissue of lies,
  • half-truth,
  • white lie,
  • falsehood.
  •
  • conga,
  • dancing,
  • belly dance,
  • cancan,
  • boogie,
  • charleston.
  •
  • deceive,
  • Misspeak,
  • bend the truth,
  • mislead,
  • make up,
  • manufacture,
  • invent,
  • concoct.
  •absurdity (noun)
  • folly,
  • silliness,
  • BSS,
  • applesauce,
  • idiocy,
  • stupidity,
  • bull,
  • unreasonableness,
  • craziness,
  • ridiculousness,
  • jives,
  • improbability,
  • ludicrousness,
  • senselessness,
  • flapdoodle,
  • illogicality,
  • illogicalness,
  • bs,
  • foolishness,
  • irrationality,
  • insanity,
  • idiocies,
  • crap,
  • farce,
  • hot air,
  • inanity,
  • incongruity.
  •cheat (noun)
  • chicanery,
  • flimflam,
  • shell game,
  • stunt,
  • rip-off,
  • hoax,
  • Hoaxing,
  • bill of goods,
  • dirty pool,
  • snow job,
  • gyp,
  • whitewash,
  • racket,
  • frame,
  • hustle,
  • con game,
  • trickery,
  • artifice,
  • fix,
  • hanky-panky,
  • dodge,
  • baloney,
  • imposture,
  • plant,
  • scam,
  • deceit,
  • put-on,
  • wrong,
  • sting,
  • spoof,
  • Cozening.
  •communication (noun)
  • jive,
  • swing,
  • swing music.
  •conversation (noun)
  • confab,
  • consultation,
  • comment,
  • discussion,
  • hearing,
  • Re-mark,
  • gossip,
  • visit,
  • remark,
  • talkfest,
  • confabulation,
  • repartee,
  • gab,
  • questioning,
  • chat,
  • pillow talk,
  • ventilation,
  • powwow,
  • communion,
  • speech,
  • expression,
  • palaver,
  • converse,
  • observation,
  • intercourse,
  • colloquy,
  • yak,
  • exchange,
  • conference,
  • communication,
  • debate,
  • parley.
  •dance (noun)
  • get down,
  • caper,
  • jitter,
  • foot it,
  • foxtrots,
  • whirl,
  • boogie down,
  • careen,
  • trip,
  • promenade,
  • one-step,
  • shimmy,
  • tread,
  • boogies,
  • jitterbug,
  • rock n' roll,
  • twostep,
  • skip,
  • frolic,
  • rhumba,
  • spin,
  • bob,
  • tap,
  • Tangos,
  • gambol,
  • cut a rug,
  • hop,
  • twist,
  • jitterbugs,
  • prance,
  • hoof it,
  • step,
  • congas,
  • jump,
  • flit,
  • bunny hop,
  • two-step,
  • leap,
  • sway.
  •deception (noun)
  • decoy,
  • shift,
  • ruse,
  • cover-up,
  • bilk,
  • crock,
  • chicanes,
  • malarkey,
  • feint,
  • story,
  • subterfuge,
  • catch,
  • stall,
  • device,
  • stratagem,
  • pretext,
  • Illusions,
  • trap,
  • illusion,
  • wile,
  • gimmick,
  • wrinkle,
  • chicane,
  • hogwash,
  • confidence game,
  • fallacy,
  • snare,
  • mare's-nest.
  •defense (noun)
  • apologetics,
  • apologia,
  • rationalization,
  • extenuation,
  • reply,
  • exoneration,
  • cleanups,
  • rejoinder,
  • plea,
  • apology,
  • retort,
  • copout,
  • off-time,
  • vindication,
  • Excusing,
  • fish story,
  • exculpation,
  • cleanup,
  • answer,
  • Apologizing,
  • return,
  • Explaining,
  • response,
  • argument.
  •distortion (noun)
  • warp,
  • torture,
  • line,
  • coloring,
  • misinterpretation,
  • slant,
  • contortion,
  • malformation,
  • misrepresentation,
  • bend,
  • smoke,
  • bias,
  • perversion,
  • misuse,
  • Misshape,
  • buckle,
  • crookedness,
  • exaggeration.
  •empty talk (noun)
  • lip service.
  •evasion (noun)
  • Evading,
  • Equivocating,
  • routine,
  • dodging,
  • shuffling,
  • run-around,
  • equivocation,
  • shirking,
  • shunning,
  • circumvention,
  • sophistry,
  • cunning,
  • sophism,
  • slip,
  • Fudging,
  • ditch,
  • evasiveness,
  • prevarication.
  •excuse (noun)
  • disguise,
  • song,
  • substitute,
  • regrets,
  • semblance,
  • cover,
  • mitigation,
  • alibi,
  • makeshift,
  • justification,
  • grounds,
  • expedient.
  •guile (noun)
  • craftiness,
  • stab in the back,
  • dirty work,
  • trickiness,
  • Dissemblance,
  • craft,
  • treachery,
  • artfulness,
  • sellout,
  • foul play,
  • duplicity,
  • dishonesty.
  •jazz (noun)
  • blues,
  • bop,
  • dixieland.
  •jest (noun)
  • game,
  • quip,
  • wisecrack,
  • laugh,
  • gag,
  • sally,
  • funny,
  • sport,
  • jolly,
  • witticism,
  • one-liner,
  • pleasantry,
  • play,
  • crack,
  • prank.
  •lip service (noun)
  • hollow words,
  • lip praise,
  • tokenism,
  • hypocrisy,
  • lip worship,
  • smooth talk,
  • lip homage,
  • tongue in cheek,
  • lip reverence,
  • hypocritical respect,
  • empty talk,
  • insincerity,
  • mouth honor,
  • token agreement,
  • Mouthing,
  • lip devotion.
  •malarky (noun)
  • balderdash,
  • rubbish,
  • drivel,
  • giddiness,
  • prattle,
  • bombast,
  • trash,
  • gibberish,
  • bunk,
  • babble.
  •nonsense (noun)
  • rashness,
  • thoughtlessness,
  • imprudence,
  • fatuity,
  • tripe,
  • ranting,
  • madness,
  • pretense,
  • mumbo jumbo,
  • rot,
  • claptrap,
  • flightiness,
  • soft soap,
  • bananas,
  • hooey,
  • scrawl.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • mutilation,
  • coverup,
  • Pharisaism,
  • cheat,
  • hot jazz,
  • ragtime,
  • twistedness,
  • bon mot,
  • fairy stories,
  • distortion,
  • fast one,
  • rigmarole,
  • misstatement,
  • flattery,
  • mutilations,
  • dance,
  • boogie-woogie,
  • fakery,
  • fable,
  • bamboozlement,
  • fast shuffle,
  • fusion jazz,
  • nonsense,
  • patter,
  • stab in back,
  • obliqueness,
  • Intorsion,
  • Fooleries,
  • rag,
  • rib-tickler,
  • artifact,
  • tatter,
  • mis-statement,
  • cover story,
  • elusion,
  • Malconformation,
  • why and wherefore,
  • shufflings,
  • shady deal,
  • wiliness,
  • jazz,
  • scribble,
  • improvisational music,
  • runaround,
  • dissimulation,
  • fugiviteness,
  • double-dealing,
  • swindle,
  • cover up,
  • rib tickler,
  • cop-out,
  • twaddle,
  • fugivity,
  • sham,
  • bebop,
  • Artifacts,
  • song and dance,
  • stopgap,
  • elusions,
  • evasion,
  • tall story,
  • figment,
  • run around,
  • fairy story,
  • Jollies,
  • talk,
  • defense,
  • foolery,
  • Double dealing,
  • dirty dealing,
  • banana,
  • malarky,
  • spiel,
  • victimization,
  • guile,
  • eschewal,
  • idle talk,
  • deception,
  • lingo,
  • rantings,
  • cunnings,
  • piffle,
  • Funnies,
  • jest,
  • fabrication,
  • Hanky Panky,
  • conversation,
  • tatters,
  • excuse,
  • cop-outs,
  • absurdity,
  • fraud,
  • tommyrot,
  • fancy footwork,
  • hypocriticalness,
  • sell,
  • dirty trick,
  • sharp practice,
  • poppycock.
  •patter (noun)
  • dialect,
  • chatter,
  • jargon,
  • jabber,
  • patois,
  • pitch,
  • cant,
  • monologue,
  • argot.
  •piffle (noun)
  • useless words,
  • futile talk.
  •rag (noun)
  • fragment,
  • scold,
  • shred,
  • remnant,
  • scrap,
  • patch,
  • frazzle,
  • flitter.
  •rigmarole (noun)
  • gobbledygook,
  • blather.
  •sham (noun)
  • imitation,
  • facade,
  • false front,
  • mockery,
  • impostor,
  • phoniness,
  • pseudo.
  •song and dance (noun)
  • number,
  • the business,
  • elaborate explanation,
  • ripoff.
  •spiel (noun)
  • sales talk.
  •talk (noun)
  • persiflage,
  • innuendo,
  • cry,
  • buzz,
  • allusion,
  • scuttlebutt,
  • lip,
  • hint,
  • rumor,
  • grapevine,
  • noise,
  • report,
  • jaw,
  • chitchat,
  • rumble,
  • raillery,
  • insinuation,
  • hearsay,
  • badinage,
  • small talk,
  • prose.
  •tommyrot (noun)
  • bunkum,
  • garbage,
  • tomfoolery.
  •twaddle (noun)
  • Stultiloquence.

• v.

  •bluff (verb)
  • shuck,
  • humbug,
  • counterfeit,
  • take in,
  • snow,
  • affect,
  • juggle,
  • feign,
  • con,
  • simulate,
  • double-cross,
  • beguile,
  • betray,
  • put on.
  •boast (verb)
  • cock-a-doodle-doo,
  • strut,
  • triumph,
  • advertise,
  • blow,
  • give a good account of oneself,
  • exaggerate,
  • PSYCH,
  • sling,
  • aggrandize,
  • show off,
  • talk big,
  • attract attention,
  • grandstand,
  • bluster,
  • shovel,
  • swagger,
  • shoot,
  • preen,
  • glory,
  • showboat,
  • gasconade,
  • vapor,
  • sound off,
  • blow smoke,
  • congratulate oneself,
  • exult,
  • flaunt,
  • prate,
  • puff,
  • blow one's own horn,
  • hug oneself,
  • bully,
  • flourish,
  • lay on thick,
  • gloat,
  • crow,
  • flatter oneself.
  •brag (verb)
  • mouth,
  • rodomontade,
  • vaunt.
  •defraud (verb)
  • victimize,
  • take,
  • foil,
  • clip,
  • outwit,
  • DO,
  • cozen,
  • milk,
  • pilfer,
  • bamboozle,
  • stick,
  • burn,
  • shaft,
  • rob,
  • rip off,
  • circumvent,
  • dupe,
  • fleece.
  •delude (verb)
  • sucker,
  • string along,
  • gull,
  • outfox,
  • hoodwink.
  •equivocate (verb)
  • give run around,
  • weasel,
  • fudge,
  • cop a plea,
  • parry,
  • beat around the bush,
  • cloud the issue,
  • flip-flop,
  • elude,
  • hem and haw,
  • sit on the fence,
  • fence,
  • tell white lie,
  • falsify,
  • tergiverse,
  • quibble,
  • pussyfoot,
  • evade,
  • mince words,
  • waffle,
  • escape,
  • cavil,
  • blow hot and cold,
  • beg the question,
  • sidestep,
  • shuffle,
  • palter,
  • cop out,
  • eschew,
  • stonewall,
  • double-talk,
  • pass the buck,
  • tergiversate.
  •fabricate (verb)
  • form,
  • misrepresent,
  • coin,
  • devise,
  • contrive,
  • forge.
  •fib (verb)
  • promote.
  •fool (verb)
  • fox,
  • play-act,
  • suck in,
  • Juke,
  • make believe,
  • lead on,
  • put one over on,
  • trifle,
  • play a trick on,
  • diddle.
  •hedge (verb)
  • give the run around,
  • be noncommittal,
  • duck,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • temporize.
  •jest (verb)
  • gibe,
  • flout,
  • sneer,
  • needle,
  • gird,
  • scoff,
  • roast.
  •joke (verb)
  • kid around,
  • revel,
  • horse around,
  • pun,
  • jape.
  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • trip the light fantastic toe,
  • trip the light fantastic.
  •pretend (verb)
  • claim,
  • pass off,
  • shuck and jive,
  • allege,
  • pass oneself off as,
  • claim falsely,
  • masquerade,
  • assume,
  • impersonate,
  • dissimulate,
  • malinger,
  • put up a front,
  • profess,
  • fish,
  • lay claim,
  • act,
  • be deceitful,
  • be hypocritical,
  • dissemble,
  • make out,
  • purport,
  • let on.
  •prevaricate (verb)
  • belie,
  • distort,
  • phony up,
  • garble.
  •ridicule (verb)
  • poke fun at,
  • parody,
  • unmask,
  • caricature,
  • laugh at,
  • rally,
  • deflate,
  • run down,
  • make a game of,
  • mimic,
  • scorn,
  • cartoon,
  • expose,
  • show up,
  • RAZ,
  • takeoff,
  • make a laughing-stock,
  • pan,
  • humiliate,
  • Fleer,
  • send up,
  • pooh-pooh,
  • make a fool of,
  • lampoon,
  • quiz,
  • put down,
  • twit,
  • haze,
  • travesty,
  • rail at.
  •satirize (verb)
  • burlesque.
  •tease (verb)
  • bother,
  • sound,
  • worry,
  • annoy,
  • gnaw,
  • tantalize,
  • bait,
  • vex,
  • bedevil,
  • slam,
  • give a hard time,
  • harry,
  • torment,
  • snap,
  • pick on,
  • goad,
  • harass,
  • badger,
  • disturb,
  • plague,
  • pester,
  • Importune,
  • devil,
  • beleaguer,
  • dog,
  • hector,
  • nudge.
  •trick (verb)
  • screw,
  • throw,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • set up,
  • rook.
  •twit (verb)
  • scout.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • mosh,
  • Gregorian Chant,
  • choral,
  • zydeco,
  • samba,
  • barbershop,
  • minuet,
  • gavotte,
  • A cappella,
  • plainsong,
  • bossa nova,
  • cavort,
  • cha-cha,
  • scat.
  •
  • flamenco,
  • tarantella,
  • mambo,
  • rumba,
  • tango,
  • fandango,
  • quickstep,
  • bolero,
  • polonaise,
  • polka,
  • foxtrot,
  • folk dance.
  •
  • cut in,
  • salsa,
  • disco,
  • jig,
  • gyrate.
  •
  • waltz.
  •
  • rock.
  •banter
  • mock,
  • make fun of,
  • razzed,
  • funned,
  • funning,
  • Mocked,
  • jived,
  • jiving,
  • Ragging,
  • jeer.
  •boast
  • showboats,
  • psychs,
  • Strutted,
  • blow one's horn,
  • Grand-stand,
  • vaporing,
  • showboating,
  • Strutting,
  • cock-a-doodle-doos,
  • psyching,
  • laid on thick,
  • Vapored,
  • Preened,
  • blow horn.
  •deceive
  • bluff.
  •equivocate
  • covered up,
  • covering up,
  • Parried,
  • begging the question,
  • minced words,
  • flip-flopping,
  • beating around the bush,
  • sit on fence,
  • covers up,
  • beat around bush,
  • flipflop.
  •fool
  • Foxed,
  • scamming,
  • Trifled,
  • Jukes,
  • Foxes,
  • sucked in,
  • spoofed,
  • chicaning,
  • spoofing,
  • fool,
  • chicaned,
  • Foxing,
  • playact,
  • fools,
  • put over on,
  • scammed,
  • play act,
  • leads on,
  • led on.
  •hedge
  • shillyshally.
  •Other relevant words:
  • Mouthed,
  • japed,
  • pretend,
  • play for a fool,
  • chouse,
  • poke fun,
  • double deal,
  • prevaricate,
  • imposes upon,
  • create fiction,
  • take to the cleaner's,
  • wisecracked,
  • do number on,
  • taking for ride,
  • mousetrap,
  • Burlesqued,
  • fibbing,
  • josh,
  • pull one's leg,
  • trick,
  • Shafting,
  • teasing,
  • fib,
  • do a number on,
  • play the clown,
  • misguide,
  • Shafted,
  • hotdog,
  • mousetraps,
  • makes merry,
  • joking,
  • Misguiding,
  • Devilling,
  • boast,
  • made merry,
  • ridicule,
  • make like,
  • make merry,
  • punning,
  • jokes,
  • disinformed,
  • speak with forked tongue,
  • Hocuspocus,
  • rodomontading,
  • take for a ride,
  • jollied,
  • Humbugged,
  • making merry,
  • brag,
  • Punned,
  • rodomontaded,
  • Snowing,
  • psyched out,
  • hotdogging,
  • Frolicking,
  • Deviling,
  • lead up garden path,
  • hotdogs,
  • faked out,
  • equivocate,
  • pull wool over,
  • out wit,
  • stretch the truth,
  • psych out,
  • fake out,
  • Burlesquing,
  • Suckered,
  • pull leg,
  • disinform,
  • hedge,
  • sucker into,
  • Sneered,
  • be at,
  • doublecross,
  • Snowed,
  • imposed upon,
  • Humbugging,
  • pulling one's leg,
  • lied,
  • outwitting,
  • wisecracking,
  • take to cleaners,
  • Illude,
  • embezzle,
  • Quipping,
  • fabricate,
  • Suckering,
  • jollying,
  • PUNS,
  • trump up,
  • Devilled,
  • impose on,
  • banter,
  • tease,
  • play trick on,
  • delude,
  • japing,
  • Quipped,
  • play tricks,
  • defraud,
  • hoodwinked,
  • pat on back,
  • tell a little white lie,
  • impose upon,
  • joke,
  • Deviled,
  • pull fast one,
  • do out of,
  • caricaturize,
  • pat oneself on the back,
  • bunco,
  • caboodle,
  • fake,
  • take to the cleaners,
  • swipe at,
  • double cross.
  •pretend
  • jazzed,
  • laying claim,
  • passed as,
  • claimed falsely,
  • jazzing,
  • pass off as,
  • pass as.
  •prevaricate
  • misspeaking,
  • misspeaks,
  • misspoken.
  •ridicule
  • pooh pooh,
  • pokes fun at,
  • Lampooned,
  • Fleered,
  • sent up,
  • laughed at,
  • Fleering,
  • Ridiculed,
  • cartooned,
  • satirize,
  • poked fun at,
  • Caricatured,
  • make game of,
  • cartooning,
  • sends up,
  • Caricaturing,
  • Hazed,
  • Hazing.

Antonyms for Jive:

• adj.

  • colloquial
    correct, formal, stilted, standard.

• n.

  • absurdity
    judgment, sense, wisdom, reasonableness, seriousness, reason, logic, intelligence.
  • cheat
    honesty, frankness, truthfulness, peace, openness, truth, reality.
  • conversation
    silence, quietude, disagreement, quiet, listening.
  • deception
    honor, trustworthiness, uprightness.
  • defense
    capitulation, surrender, flight, question, request, charge, yielding, indictment, desertion, betrayal.
  • distortion
    beauty, clarity, perfection.
  • evasion
    directness, facing, meeting.
  • excuse
    permanent.
  • fabrication
    entertainment, fun, non-fiction.
  • flattery
    castigation, insult, belittlement, denunciation, offense, criticism, condemnation, blame.
  • guile
    artlessness, forthrightness, sincerity, naivety.
  • jest
    work.
  • malarky
    possessions.
  • nonsense
    common sense, fact, understanding, intelligibility.
  • rag
    whole, lot.
  • sham
    solemnity, original.
  • talk
    proof, evidence.
  • tommyrot
    thoughtfulness.
  • victimization
    gift.

• v.

  • banter
    flatter, praise, be serious.
  • bluff
    be honest, tell truth, protect, support, reveal, come clean.
  • boast
    be modest, be sad, conceal, fail, deprecate, hide.
  • brag
    be quiet.
  • defraud
    assist, refuse, help, offer, receive, contribute, repay, lose, give, aid.
  • delude
    be truthful.
  • equivocate
    encounter, confront, speak on, meet, face, take on, release.
  • fabricate
    wreck, ruin, break, destroy, demolish.
  • jest
    compliment, commend.
  • pretend
    deny.
  • prevaricate
    order.
  • ridicule
    approve.
  • tease
    reassure, soothe, delight, make happy, free, please.
  • trick
    let go.
  • twit
    admire, build up, laud.
  • Other antonyms:
    direct, plain, unfeigned, frank, candid, sincere, artless, straightforward, forthright, Undesigning, genuine, honest, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, open.

Hyponym for Jive:

• n.

  • communication
    jazz.

• v.

  • creation
    dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe.