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Jesting

//ˈd͡ʒɛstɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    facetious
  2. 2
    humorous

    "He will find that these are no jesting matters."

  3. 3
    playful; mocking
  4. 4
    jeering
Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by jokes and good humor wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    joking countable, uncountable

    "Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings."

  2. 2
    bantering; ridicule countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    mocking countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of jest form-of, gerund, participle, present

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