kidding
The word “kidding” has 2 syllables: kid-ding
It's pronounced as /ˈkɪdɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for kidding?
In the thesaurus, “kidding” has 164 synonyms and 12 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for kidding along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for kidding
- amusement
- amusing
- asteism
- backchat
- badgering
- badinage
- baiting
- bandying
- banter
- bantering
- barb
- bluffing
- bothering
- buffoonery
- caricaturing
- chaff
- chaffing
- chatter
- chitchat
- clowning
- clownishness
- comedy
- comicality
- comicalness
- contemptuous
- crack
- cracking wise
- deriding
- derision
- derisive
- derisory
- dig
- disdainful
- dissing
- disturbing
- diverting
- drollery
- drollness
- entertaining
- escapade
- exasperating
- exchange
- facetiousness
- farce
- farcicality
- flippancy
- fool
- fooling
- frolic
- frolicking
- fun
- funniness
- funning
- gag
- gagging
- gaiety
- gambit
- gibing
- give-and-take
- goofing on
- gossip
- happiness
- harassing
- hassling
- hazing
- heckling
- high jinks
- high spirits
- hilariousness
- horseplay
- humor
- humorousness
- irony
- irritating
- japing
- jeering
- jest
- jesting
- jibing
- jiving
- jocoseness
- jocosity
- jocularity
- joke
- joking
- jollification
- jollity
- jollying
- joshing
- joyfulness
- lampoonery
- lampooning
- laugh
- levity
- lightness
- ludicrousness
- making light
- merriment
- mirth
- mockery
- mocking
- mummery
- needling
- nonsense
- nothings
- parody
- parodying
- persiflage
- plaguing
- play
- playfulness
- pleasantry
- practical joke
- pretense
- provoking
- quip
- quipping
- quizzical
- ragging
- raillery
- rallying
- razzing
- repartee
- ribbing
- richness
- ridicule
- ridiculing
- ridiculousness
- riding
- roasting
- roughhouse
- roughhousing
- rowdiness
- sally
- sarcastic
- satire
- satirizing
- scornful
- sham
- skylarking
- small talk
- spoofing
- sport
- stringing along
- taking the mickey out of
- taunt
- taunting
- teasing
- tickling
- tomfoolery
- tormenting
- trifling
- vexing
- waggery
- whimsy
- wisecrack
- wisecracking
- wit
- witticism
- wittiness
- wordplay
- yucking
- yukking
- zaniness
Antonyms for kidding
- comforting
- depression
- drama
- flattery
- praise
- praising
- regaling
- sadness
- seriousness
- tragedy
- unhappiness
- work
Meanings of kidding
- verb
- To make a fool of (someone).
- To dupe or deceive (someone).
- To make a joke with (someone).
- Of a goat, to give birth to kids.
- To joke.
- noun
- The action of the verb kid.
- The act of a goat giving birth.
Example Sentences
- I hope you're just kidding, because that sounds unbelievable!
- She couldn’t tell if he was kidding or being serious about the surprise.
- They were only kidding when they said they’d buy a spaceship.
- Stop kidding around and get back to work!
- He had everyone laughing, but it was clear he was just kidding.
On this page you'll find 176 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to kidding, such as: amusement, amusing, asteism, backchat, badgering, badinage, baiting.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
backchat
- abruptness
- assurance
- audaciousness
- audacity
- back answer
- back talk
- badinage
- banter
- barb
- bluffness
- bluntness
- boldness
- brazenness
- brusqueness
- cackle
- causerie
- chaff
- chat
- chatter
- cheek
- chin music
- chin-wag
- chitchat
- chutzpah
- coarseness
- colloquy
- comeback
- confab
- confabulation
- conference
- crack
- crassness
- crossness
- crosstalk
- crudity
- crust
- curtness
- cuteness
- debate
- dialog
- dialogue
- dig
- discourse
- discourtesy
- disrespect
- disrespectfulness
- drollness
- effrontery
- exchange
- facetiousness
- fooling
- forwardness
- freshness
- funniness
- gab
- gabfest
- gag
- gall
- gambit
- give-and-take
- gossip
- gruffness
- guff
- happy talk
- hardihood
- hilariousness
- humor
- humorousness
- impertinence
- impoliteness
- impropriety
- impudence
- incivility
- insolence
- insolency
- insult
- jangle
- jaw
- jest
- jesting
- joke
- joshing
- kidding
- laugh
- lip
- mocking
- mouth
- nasty reply
- natter
- nerve
- nonsense
- nothings
- palaver
- parley
- patter
- persiflage
- pertness
- pleasantry
- presumption
- quip
- raillery
- rap
- razzing
- rejoinder
- repartee
- retort
- return
- ribbing
- richness
- ridiculing
- riposte
- rudeness
- sally
- sass
- sauce
- schmooze
- short answer
- small talk
- smart mouth
- surliness
- symposium
- table talk
- tactlessness
- talk
- vulgarity
- waggery
- wise guy
- wisecrack
- wit
- witticism
- wordplay
- yack
- yak
- yammer
- yap
dallying
- aestivating
- ambling
- amorous
- amusing
- apathetic
- apathy
- arch
- asleep on the job
- backward
- behindhand
- bumming
- careless
- cavorting
- chilling
- comatose
- come-hither
- come-on
- coquetting
- coquettish
- courting
- coy
- crawling
- creeping
- dabbling
- dalliance
- dawdling
- decelerating
- delaying
- deliberate
- delighting
- diddling
- dilatory
- dillydallying
- directionless
- disporting
- diverting
- dozing
- dragging
- droning
- dropping behind
- drowsy
- dull
- easing
- entertaining
- enticing
- estivating
- falling behind
- filibustering
- flagging
- flightiness
- flippancy
- flirting
- flirty
- flummery
- folly
- fooling
- fooling around
- footling
- fribble
- frippery
- frisking
- frisky
- frivoling
- frivolling
- frivolousness
- frolicking
- fun
- furloughing
- futile
- gaiety
- gamboling
- gambolling
- game
- giddiness
- goldbricking
- good-for-nothing
- hanging
- hanging about
- hanging fire
- heavy-footed
- hibernating
- idle
- idleness
- idling
- inactive
- inattentive
- inching
- incompetent
- indifferent
- indolence
- indolent
- inert
- inertia
- jest
- jesting
- joking
- joshing
- kicking around
- kicking back
- kidding
- killing time
- kittenish
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- lallygagging
- languid
- languor
- languorous
- lassitude
- late
- lax
- laziness
- lazing
- lazy
- lazying
- leading on
- leisurely
- lethargic
- lethargy
- levity
- libidinous
- lifeless
- lightheartedness
- lightness
- lingering
- listless
- listlessness
- loafing
- loitering
- lolling
- lollygagging
- lounging
- lumbering
- malingering
- manipulating
- marking time
- mashing
- measured
- messing
- messing around
- monkeying
- moping
- moratory
- moseying
- mucking
- neglectful
- negligent
- nonsense
- out of it
- passive
- piddling
- play
- playing
- pleasing
- plodding
- pokey
- poking
- poky
- procrastinating
- puerility
- putting off
- putting on
- rambling
- razzing
- recreating
- relaxing
- remiss
- resting
- ribbing
- rollicking
- romping
- sauntering
- screwing around
- shallowness
- shiftless
- shiftlessness
- shilly-shallying
- shuffling
- skylarking
- slack
- sleepy
- sloth
- slothful
- slow
- slow-footed
- slow-moving
- slowing
- sluggish
- sluggishness
- snail-like
- snail-paced
- snaillike
- snoozy
- somnolent
- spoony
- sport
- sporting
- sportive
- staggering
- stalling
- stringing along
- strolling
- superficiality
- supine
- supineness
- swanning
- tardy
- tarrying
- teasing
- temporizing
- time-wasting
- tired
- torpid
- toying
- trifling
- triviality
- truanting
- unambitious
- unconcerned
- unenergetic
- unhasty
- unhurried
- unindustrious
- unmotivated
- unpersevering
- unready
- vamping
- vegging out
- volatility
- weary
- whimsicality
- whimsy
- wooing
- worthless
fabricating
- accomplishing
- ad-libbing
- architecture
- arrangement
- assembling
- assembly
- beginning
- beguiling
- build
- building
- carpentering
- cast
- coining
- combining
- coming up with
- composing
- composition
- conceiving
- conception
- concocting
- confecting
- constituting
- constitution
- constructing
- contour
- contriving
- cozening
- crafting
- creating
- cut
- daydreaming
- deceiving
- defaming
- deluding
- designing
- development
- devising
- disposition
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- distorting
- dreaming
- drumming up
- duping
- edifice
- effecting
- elevation
- envisaging
- envisioning
- equivocating
- erecting
- erection
- establishing
- excogitating
- executing
- extemporizing
- fabric
- fabrication
- falsifying
- fantasizing
- fashioning
- fathering
- fibbing
- figuration
- figure
- fooling
- foreswearing
- forging
- form
- format
- formation
- forming
- forswearing
- foundation
- founding
- framing
- fudging
- garbling
- generating
- gulling
- hammering
- handcrafting
- hatching
- hewing
- hoaxing
- hoodwinking
- imagining
- improvisation
- improvising
- inaugurating
- initiating
- innovating
- instituting
- inventing
- invention
- jerry-building
- kidding
- knocking out
- libeling
- libelling
- lying
- makeup
- making
- making up
- manufacture
- manufacturing
- minting
- misguiding
- misinforming
- misleading
- misreporting
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- mold
- molding
- organizing
- originating
- origination
- outline
- paltering
- perjuring
- picturing
- piecing
- plan
- planning
- prefab
- prefabricating
- prefabrication
- prevaricating
- producing
- putting together
- putting up
- raising
- rearing
- reassembling
- rebuilding
- reconstructing
- redeveloping
- reedifying
- refashioning
- remaking
- remanufacturing
- retrofitting
- roadwork
- setting up
- shape
- shaping
- slandering
- snowing
- structure
- structuring
- system
- systematization
- taking in
- throwing up
- traducing
- tricking
- trumping up
- turn
- type
- uniting
- visioning
- visualizing
facetiousness
- absurdity
- amusement
- aphorism
- badinage
- ball
- banter
- bon mot
- buffoonery
- buoyancy
- burlesque
- camp
- chaffing
- cheer
- cheerfulness
- childishness
- clowning
- comedy
- comic drama
- comicality
- comicalness
- drollery
- drollness
- farce
- farcicality
- festivity
- fickleness
- field day
- flightiness
- flippancy
- folly
- foolishness
- frivolity
- frivolousness
- frothiness
- fun
- fun and games
- funnies
- funniness
- gag
- gag show
- gaiety
- gayety
- giddiness
- glee
- gleefulness
- goofiness
- grins
- happiness
- high camp
- high spirits
- high time
- high-spiritedness
- hilarity
- hoopla
- humor
- humorousness
- interlude
- jest
- jesting
- jocoseness
- jocosity
- jocularity
- joke
- joking
- joviality
- joyfulness
- kidding
- lark
- laughs
- levity
- light entertainment
- light-headedness
- light-mindedness
- lightheartedness
- lightness
- ludicrousness
- merriment
- merry-go-round
- mirth
- mirthfulness
- picnic
- playfulness
- pleasantry
- practical joke
- prank
- puerility
- pun
- quip
- raillery
- repartee
- ridiculousness
- sally
- satire
- schtick
- send-up
- silliness
- sitcom
- slapstick
- takeoff
- tomfoolery
- travesty
- trick
- trifling
- triviality
- vaudeville
- volatility
- waggery
- whimsicality
- whimsy
- wisecrack
- wisecracking
- wit
- witticism
- wittiness
- wordplay
- zaniness
gaffing
- bamboozling
- beating
- beguiling
- betraying
- bilking
- bitching
- bleeding
- bluffing
- buffaloing
- burning
- catching
- cheating
- chiseling
- chiselling
- chousing
- clipping
- conning
- cozening
- deceiving
- defrauding
- deluding
- diddling
- doing
- doing a number on
- doing in
- double-crossing
- duping
- euchring
- exploiting
- extorting
- faking out
- fast-talking
- fiddling
- fleecing
- flimflamming
- fooling
- gammoning
- gouging
- gulling
- having
- having on
- hoaxing
- hoodwinking
- hornswoggling
- hosing
- humbugging
- hustling
- juggling
- kidding
- leading one down the garden path
- leading one up the garden path
- milking
- misguiding
- misinforming
- misleading
- mulcting
- nicking
- nobbling
- overcharging
- plucking
- putting on
- reaming
- ripping off
- rooking
- screwing
- selling a bill of goods to
- shaking down
- shortchanging
- shorting
- skinning
- skunking
- snookering
- snowing
- soaking
- spoofing
- squeezing
- sticking
- stiffing
- stinging
- stringing along
- suckering
- sucking in
- swindling
- taking for a ride
- taking in
- taking to the cleaners
- teasing
- thimblerigging
- tricking
- victimizing
- wrenching
- wresting
- wringing