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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.3 / 8 votes

  1. joke

    Wit is the quick perception of unusual or commonly unperceived analogies or relations between things apparently unrelated, and has been said to depend upon a union of surprise and pleasure; it depends certainly on the production of a diverting, entertaining, or merrymaking surprise. The analogies with which wit plays are often superficial or artificial; humor deals with real analogies of an amusing or entertaining kind, or with traits of character that are seen to have a comical side as soon as brought to view. Wit is keen, sudden, brief, and sometimes severe; humor is deep, thoughtful, sustained, and always kindly. Pleasantry is lighter and less vivid than wit. Fun denotes the merry results produced by wit and humor, or by any fortuitous occasion of mirth, and is pronounced and often hilarious.

    Synonyms:
    banter, burlesque, drollery, facetiousness, fun, humor, jest, jocularity, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, waggery, waggishness, wit, witticism

    Antonyms:
    dulness, gravity, seriousness, sobriety, solemnity, stolidity, stupidity

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 2 votes

  1. joke, gag, laugh, jest, japenoun

    a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

    "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"

    Synonyms:
    prank, muzzle, caper, trick, antic, jest, gag, laughter, joke, jocularity, laugh, put-on, jape

  2. jest, joke, jocularitynoun

    activity characterized by good humor

    Synonyms:
    prank, caper, trick, antic, jest, gag, jocosity, jocundity, joke, jocularity, laugh, put-on, jape

  3. antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-onnoun

    a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

    Synonyms:
    pasquinade, put-on, thaumaturgy, gag, john, sendup, deception, legerdemain, magic trick, parody, job, jest, capriole, fraud, whoremaster, clowning, takeoff, caper, mockery, humbug, charade, frivolity, jape, jocularity, play, joke, buffoonery, romp, fraudulence, fast one, dupery, trick, illusion, magic, lampoon, harlequinade, antic, hoax, travesty, whoremonger, laugh, gambol, frolic, burlesque, spoof, conjuring trick, prank, japery, conjuration

  4. jokeverb

    a triviality not to be taken seriously

    "I regarded his campaign for mayor as a joke"

    Synonyms:
    prank, caper, trick, antic, jest, gag, jocularity, laugh, put-on, jape

  5. joke, jestverb

    tell a joke; speak humorously

    "He often jokes even when he appears serious"

    Synonyms:
    jest, joke

  6. joke, jestverb

    act in a funny or teasing way

    Synonyms:
    jest, joke

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  1. yukking

    Submitted by anonymous on January 26, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. jokenoun

    Synonyms:
    jest, quip, quirk, crank, witticism, sally, JEU D'ESPRIT

  2. jokeverb

    Synonyms:
    jest, crack a joke, perpetrate a joke

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. jokenoun

    Synonyms:
    jest, witticism, jocosity, sally, jeu d'esprit, quip, quirk, joe miller

  2. jokeverb

    Synonyms:
    rally, banter, jest

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How to use joke in a sentence?

  1. Kate Paulson:

    Some people may get a kick out of it and find it motivating as more of a joke.

  2. Seneca Scott:

    If you can look at it from all angles, and it’s probably two people hugging each other, it’s four hands. It’s not the missing heads that’s the atrocity that other people clamp onto that; it’s a stump that looked like a penis. That’s a joke.

  3. Carol Channing:

    Just lucky I guess, that was title of my book. It was based on an old joke. Here it is: Cop to hooker, ‘What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?’ She answers, ‘Just lucky I guess.’ That has been my life.

  4. Joe Biden:

    Your state motto is, While I breathe, I hope, its not a joke. Were breathing, but God, we have got to have hope.

  5. Bill Dawes:

    He was very proud of his body and he would expose himself in front of his guys he was on the road with and other male comics and he would do it kind of as a joke, he would expose himself in front of other women when other guys were in the room with him.


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