jesting

facetious

Adjective

  1. facetious
  2. humorous
    • He will find that these are no jesting matters. - 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London:...
  3. playful; mocking
  4. jeering

Forms

more jesting most jesting

Derived

jestingly unjesting

Noun

  1. joking
    • Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings. - 1599, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Passionate Pilgrime. […], 2nd edition, London: […] [Thomas...
    • What an extraordinary mental delusion jesting is; that sort of laboured vivacity which fancies it is pointed when it is only personal; and more extraordinary still, it is always the resource of stupid people. - 1834,...
  2. bantering; ridicule
  3. mocking

Forms

jestings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of jest

Related

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