Word Meanings - JOKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope. Or witty

Additional info about word: JOKE

1. Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope. Or witty joke our airy senses moves To pleasant laughter. Gay. 2. Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport. Inclose whole downs in walls, 't is all a joke. Pope. In joke, in jest; sportively; not meant seriously. -- Practical joke. See under Practical.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JOKE)

• Jest
• Joke
• raillery
• fun
• sport
• quip
• witticism
• Rally Banter
• satirize
• chaff
• taunt
• mock
• deride
• ridicule
• joke
• twit
• Sport
• Play
• frolic
• wantonness
• diversion
• merriment
• gaiety
• amusement
• recreation
• game
• pastime
• Trifle
• Bauble
• bagatelle
• toy
• straw
• nothing
• triviality
• levity
• cipher
• bubble
• gewgaw
• kickshaw
• rush

Related words: (words related to JOKE)

• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• FROLIC
  1. A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth. He would be at his frolic once again. Roscommon. 2. A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• FROLICKY
  Frolicsome. Richardson.
• CHAFFER
  1. To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser. 2. To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.
• PASTIME
  That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
• GEWGAW
  A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• CIPHER
  1. To write in occult characters. His notes he ciphered with Greek characters. Hayward. 2. To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer. 3. To decipher. Shak. 4. To designate by characters. Shak.
• SPORTLESS
  Without sport or mirth; joyless.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• SPORTING
  Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• RECREATION
  The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
• SPORTAL
  Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• STRAWED
  imp. & p. p. of Straw.
• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• ORALLY
  1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher.