| Main Entry: | pleasantry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nice remark |
Synonyms: |
badinage, banter, bon mot, humor, jest, joke, joking, levity, merriment, quip, quirk, repartee, sally, squib, wit, witticism |
Antonyms: |
criticism |
| Main Entry: | humor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comedy, funniness |
Synonyms: |
amusement, badinage, banter, buffoonery, clowning, comicality, comicalness, drollery, facetiousness, farce, flippancy, fun, gag, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joke, joking, joyfulness, kidding, levity, lightness, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, tomfoolery, whimsy, wisecrack, wit, witticism, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
depression, drama, sadness, seriousness, tragedy, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | jest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | joke |
Synonyms: |
banter, bon mot, crack, fun, funny, gag, game, hoax, jive, jolly, laugh, one-liner, play, pleasantry, prank, quip, rib, rib-tickler, ridicule, sally, spoof, sport, wisecrack, witticism |
| Main Entry: | joke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fun, quip |
Synonyms: |
antic, bon mot, buffoonery, burlesque, caper, caprice, chestnut, clowning, drollery, epigram, escapade, farce, frolic, gag, gambol, game, ha-ha, hoodwinking, horseplay, humor, jape, jest, lark, laugh, mischief, monkeyshine, mummery, one-liner, parody, payoff, play, pleasantry, prank, pun, put-on, quirk, raillery, repartee, revel, rib, sally, saw, shaggy-dog story, shenanigan, snow job, sport, spree, stunt, tomfoolery, trick, vagary, whimsy, wisecrack, witticism, yarn |
| Main Entry: | levity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funniness, silliness |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness, festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs, lightheartedness, mirth, picnic, pleasantry, repartee, trifling, triviality, volatility, wit |
Antonyms: |
gravity, seriousness |
| Main Entry: | quip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | witty communication, often verbal |
Synonyms: |
badinage, banter, bon mot, crack, drollery, gag, gibe, insult, jeer, jest, joke, mockery, offense, pleasantry, pun, repartee, retort, riposte, sally, satire, spoof, wisecrack, witticism |
| Main Entry: | repartee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant conversation |
Synonyms: |
answer, badinage, banter, bon mot, comeback, humor, irony, persiflage, pleasantry, quip, raillery, rejoinder, reply, response, retort, riposte, sally, sarcasm, satire, wit, witticism, wittiness, wordplay |
Antonyms: |
argument, disagreement, fight |
| Main Entry: | small talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chit-chat |
Synonyms: |
babble, beauty-parlor chitchat, blab, blather, casual conversation, chat, chatter, chitchat, chitchat, conversation, gab, gossip, idle chat, idle chatter, idle talk, jabber, light talk, pleasantry, polite remark, prattle, rumors, table talk, trivial conversation, yakking |
| Main Entry: | sport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fun, joking |
Synonyms: |
badinage, banter, derision, drollery, escapade, frolic, horseplay, jest, jesting, joke, jollification, jollity, kidding, laughter, merriment, mirth, mockery, mummery, nonsense, pleasantry, practical joke, raillery, scorn, teasing, tomfoolery, trifling |
Antonyms: |
seriousness |
| Main Entry: | wit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
Synonyms: |
aphorism, badinage, banter, bon mot, burlesque, drollery, facetiousness, fun, gag, jest, jocularity, joke, lark, levity, pleasantry, practical joke, prank, pun, quip, raillery, repartee, sally, satire, trick, whimsicality, wisecrack, wittiness, wordplay |
Antonyms: |
seriousness |