jive

The word “jive” has 1 syllable: jive

It's pronounced as /dʒaɪv/

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In the thesaurus, “jive” has 841 synonyms and 130 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for jive along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for jive

BS
Charleston
Dixieland
Janus-faced
Pecksniffian
absurdity
act
adulation
advertise
affect
affected
aggrandize
alibi
allege
allusion
amuse
annoy
answer
apologetics
apologia
apologizing
apology
applause
applesauce
approbation
argot
argument
artfulness
artifact
artifice
artificial
assume
assumed
attract attention
babble
backhanded
badger
badinage
bait
balderdash
baloney
bamboozle
bamboozlement
bananas
banter
be at
be deceitful
be hypocritical
be noncommittal
beat around the bush
bebop
bedevil
beg the question
beguile
beleaguer
belie
bend
betray
bias
bilk
bill of goods
blandishment
blarney
blather
blow
blow hot and cold
blow smoke
blues
bluff
bluster
boast
bogus
bombast
bon mot
boogie
boogie down
boogie-woogie
boondoggle
bootlicking
bop
bother
buckle
bull
bully
bunco
bunk
bunkum
bunny hop
bureaucratese
burlesque
burn
buzz
caboodle
cajolery
campy
cant
canting
caricature
caricaturize
cartoon
catch
cavil
chaff
chat
chatter
chatty
cheat
chicane
chicanery
chitchat
chouse
circumvent
circumvention
claim
claim falsely
claptrap
cleanup
clip
cloud the issue
cock-a-doodle-doo
coin
colloquial
colloquialism
colloquy
coloring
come-off
commendation
comment
common
communication
communion
computerese
con
con game
concoct
concoction
confab
confabulation
conference
confidence game
conga
congratulate oneself
consultation
contortion
contrive
contrived
conversation
conversational
converse
cop a plea
cop out
cop-out
counterfeit
cover
cover story
cover up
cover-up
coverup
cozen
cozening
crack
crack wise
craft
craftiness
crap
craziness
create fiction
crock
crookedness
crow
cry
cunning
cut a rug
cyberspeak
debate
deceit
deceitful
deceive
deception
decoy
defense
deflate
defraud
delude
demotic
deride
device
devil
devious
devise
dialect
dialectal
diddle
dirty dealing
dirty pool
dirty trick
dirty work
disco
discussion
disguise
dishonest
dishonesty
disinform
dissemblance
dissemble
dissimulate
dissimulation
distort
disturb
ditch
divert
do
do a number on
do number on
do out of
dodge
dodging
dog
double
double-cross
double-deal
double-dealing
double-faced
double-talk
drivel
duck
dupe
duplicity
educationese
elaborate explanation
elude
elusion
embezzle
empty
empty talk
encomium
entertain
equivocate
equivocating
equivocation
escape
eschew
eschewal
eulogy
evade
evading
evasion
evasiveness
everyday
exaggerate
exaggeration
exchange
exculpation
excuse
excusing
exoneration
expedient
explaining
expose
expression
extenuation
exult
eyewash
fable
fabricate
facade
facetious
facile
fairy story
fake
fake out
fakery
fallacy
false
false front
falsehood
falsify
fancy footwork
farce
fast one
fast shuffle
fatuity
fawning
feign
feigned
feint
fence
fib
fiction
figment
fish
fish story
fix
flapdoodle
flatter oneself
flattering
flaunt
fleece
fleer
flightiness
flimflam
flip-flop
flourish
flout
flummery
foil
folly
fool
foolery
foolishness
foot it
forced
forge
forgery
form
foul play
fox
foxtrot
frame
fraud
frolic
fudge
fudging
fugiviteness
fugivity
fulsomeness
fun
funny
fusion jazz
futile talk
gab
gag
gallantry
gambol
game
garbage
garble
gasconade
get down
gibberish
gibe
giddiness
gimmick
gird
give a good account of oneself
give a hard time
give the runaround
glib
gloat
glory
gnaw
goad
gobbledygook
goof on
gossip
governmentese
grandstand
grapevine
grounds
gull
hanky-panky
harass
harry
haze
hearing
hearsay
hector
hedge
hem and haw
hint
hoax
hoaxing
hocus-pocus
hogwash
hokum
hollow
hollow words
honeyed words
hoodwink
hooey
hop
horse around
hot air
hot jazz
hot-dog
hug oneself
humbug
humiliate
hustle
hypocrisy
hypocritical
hypocritical respect
hypocriticalness
idiocy
idiom
idiomatic
idle talk
illogicality
illogicalness
illude
illusion
imitation
impersonate
importune
impose on
impose upon
impostor
imposture
improbability
improvisational music
imprudence
inanity
incongruity
ingratiation
innuendo
insanity
insincere
insincerity
insinuation
intercourse
intorsion
invent
invention
irrationality
jabber
jape
jargon
jaw
jazz
jeer
jest
jibe
jig
jitter
jitterbug
jocular
joke
jolly
josh
journalese
juggle
juke
jump
justification
kid
kid around
lampoon
language
laud
laugh
laugh at
lay claim
lay on thick
lead on
lead up garden path
leap
left-handed
let on
lie
line
lingo
lip
lip devotion
lip homage
lip praise
lip reverence
lip worship
localism
ludicrousness
madness
make a fool of
make a game of
make a laughingstock
make believe
make fun of
make like
make merry
make out
make up
makeshift
malarkey
malconformation
malformation
malinger
masquerade
mealy
mealymouthed
meaningless
mechanical
milk
mimic
mince words
misguide
misinterpretation
mislead
misrepresent
misrepresentation
misshape
misspeak
misstatement
misuse
mitigation
mock
mockery
monologue
mousetrap
mouth
mouth honor
mouthing
mumbo jumbo
mush
mutilation
myth
needle
noise
nonsense
nudge
number
obliqueness
obsequiousness
observation
off-time
one-liner
one-step
opus
outfox
outwit
palaver
palter
pan
parlance
parley
parody
parry
pass off
pass oneself off as
pass the buck
pat oneself on the back
patois
patter
persiflage
perversion
pester
pharisaical
pharisaism
phoney
phoney-baloney
phoniness
phony
phony up
phony-baloney
pick on
pidgin
piffle
pilfer
pillow talk
pious
pitch
plague
plant
plaudits
play
play a trick on
play for a fool
play the clown
play trick on
play tricks
play-act
plea
pleasantry
poke fun
poke fun at
pooh-pooh
poppycock
popular
prank
prate
prattle
preen
pretend
pretended
pretense
pretext
pretty speech
prevaricate
prevarication
profess
promenade
promote
prose
provincialism
psych
psych out
puff
puffery
pull fast one
pull wool over
purport
pussyfoot
put down
put on
put one over on
put up a front
put-on
questioning
quibble
quip
quiz
racket
rag
ragtime
rail at
raillery
rally
ranting
rashness
rationalization
razz
regionalism
regrets
rejoinder
remark
repartee
reply
report
response
retort
return
revel
rhumba
rib
rib-tickler
ride
ridicule
ridiculousness
rigmarole
rip off
ripoff
roast
rob
rodomontade
rook
rot
routine
rubbish
rumble
rumor
run around
run down
runaround
ruse
sales talk
sally
samba
sanctimonious
satirize
scam
scoff
scorn
scout
scrawl
scribble
scuttlebutt
self-righteous
sell
sellout
semblance
send up
senselessness
set up
shady deal
shaft
sham
sharp practice
shell game
shift
shilly-shally
shirking
shoot
shop
shoptalk
shovel
show off
show up
showboat
shuck
shuffle
shuffling
shunning
sidestep
silliness
simon-pure
simulate
simulated
sit on the fence
slam
slang
slanguage
slant
sling
small talk
smoke
smooth talk
snap
snare
sneer
snow
snow job
soft soap
soft words
soft-soap
song
song and dance
sophism
sophistry
sound
sound off
speak with forked tongue
speech
spiel
spin
spoof
sport
stab in the back
stall
step
stick
sting
stonewall
stopgap
story
strained
stratagem
street
stretch the truth
string along
stroking
strut
stultiloquence
stunt
stupidity
substitute
subterfuge
suck in
sucker
sucker into
superficial
swagger
sweet-talk
swindle
swing
swipe at
sycophancy
take
take for a ride
take in
take off
take the mickey out of
take to the cleaners
takeoff
talk
talk big
talkfest
tall story
tango
tantalize
tap
taunt
tease
technobabble
tell a little white lie
tell white lie
temporize
tergiversate
tergiverse
terminology
the business
thoughtlessness
toadyism
token agreement
tokenism
tomfoolery
tongue-in-cheek
torment
torture
trap
trash
travesty
treachery
tribute
trick
trickery
trickiness
trifle
trip the light fantastic
tripe
triumph
truckling
trump up
twaddle
twist
twistedness
twit
two-faced
two-step
unctuous
unctuousness
unmask
unnatural
unreasonableness
untruth
untruthful
useless words
vapor
vaunt
ventilation
vernacular
vernacularism
vex
victimize
vindication
visit
vocabulary
waffle
waltz
warp
weasel
whitewash
why and wherefore
wile
wiliness
wisecrack
witticism
work
worry
wrinkle
wrong
yak
yarn
yuck
yuk

Antonyms for jive

admire
aid
approve
artless
artlessness
assist
be honest
be modest
be quiet
be sad
be serious
be truthful
beauty
belittlement
betrayal
blame
break
candid
capitulation
castigation
charge
clarity
come clean
commend
common-sense
compliment
conceal
condemnation
confront
contribute
correct
criticism
delight
demolish
denunciation
deny
deprecate
desertion
destroy
direct
directness
disagreement
encounter
entertainment
evidence
face
facing
fact
fail
flatter
flight
formal
forthright
forthrightness
frank
frankness
free
genuine
give
heart-to-heart
heartfelt
help
hide
honest
honesty
honor
indictment
insult
intelligence
judgment
laud
listening
logic
lose
make happy
meet
meeting
nonfiction
offer
open
openness
order
original
perfection
permanent
plain
please
possessions
praise
proof
protect
question
quiet
quietude
reality
reason
reasonableness
reassure
receive
refuse
release
repay
request
reveal
ruin
sense
seriousness
silence
sincere
sincerity
soothe
speak on
standard
stilted
straightforward
support
surrender
take on
tell the truth
trustworthiness
truth
truthfulness
understanding
undesigning
unfeigned
uprightness
wisdom
work
wreck
yielding

Meanings of jive

noun
1. A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
2. Swing, a style of jazz music.
3. A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.
4. Nonsense; transparently deceptive talk.
5. African-American Vernacular English.
verb
1. To deceive; to be deceptive.
2. To dance.
3. To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt.
4. To say in a mocking or taunting manner.
5. To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer.
6. To accord or agree.
7. Alternative spelling of gybe.

Example Sentences

Jive dancing originated in African American communities and became popular in the swing era.
His explanation didn't jive with the facts, raising doubts about the validity of his story.
The upbeat music had a lively jive rhythm that got everyone on the dance floor moving.
They enjoyed exchanging witty banter and playful jive during their lunch break.
The comedian's humorous jive routine had the audience roaring with laughter throughout the performance.

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