jesting
Collocations
1ADJ.
extraordinary, good, long, mental
Definitions
noun
joking
Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings.
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.
bantering; ridicule
mocking
adj
facetious
humorous
He will find that these are no jesting matters.
playful; mocking
jeering
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — characterized by jokes and good humor
- jocose
- jocular
- joking
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
4Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings.
WiktionaryWhat 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
WiktionaryHe will find that these are no jesting matters.
WiktionaryLong jesting was never good.
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