Synonyms for Jives:

• n.

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

• v.

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

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • cuts,
  • dances,
  • vacillations,
  • swings,
  • jiving,
  • jests.

Antonyms for Jives:

• n.

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

• v.

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