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 8 synonyms.
Here are synonyms for kidding along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for kidding
- facetiousness
- fooling
- joke
- joking
- mocking
- razzing
- ribbing
- teasing
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 8 synonyms or another words to kidding, such as: facetiousness, fooling, joke, joking, mocking, razzing, ribbing.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
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- brazenness
- brusqueness
- cackle
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- chaff
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- drollness
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- impudence
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- insult
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- jaw
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- joke
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- laugh
- lip
- mocking
- mouth
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- natter
- nerve
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- pertness
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- quip
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- tactlessness
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- vulgarity
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- yack
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bandying
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- arguing
- bantering
- battle
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- challenge
- clash
- consider
- contend
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- debating
- deliberate
- deliver
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- lift
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- oppose
- pitch
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- ridiculing
- send
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- start
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- try
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- wrangle
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calving
dallying
- aestivating
- ambling
- amorous
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- 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
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- entertaining
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- estivating
- falling behind
- filibustering
- flagging
- flightiness
- flippancy
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- folly
- fooling
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- frippery
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- frisky
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- disposition
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- dreaming
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- extemporizing
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- falsifying
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- fashioning
- fathering
- fibbing
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- hammering
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- inaugurating
- initiating
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- inventing
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- jerry-building
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- 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
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- 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