larking

The word “larking” has 2 syllables: lark-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈlɑːrkɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for larking?

In the thesaurus, “larking” has 119 synonyms and 27 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for larking

  • affable
  • airy
  • amiable
  • amusing
  • animated
  • bantering
  • blithe
  • blithesome
  • boisterous
  • boon
  • bouncy
  • bounding
  • buoyant
  • capering
  • carefree
  • carousing
  • carrying on
  • cavorting
  • chaffing
  • cheerful
  • cheery
  • chipper
  • chirpy
  • clowning
  • comic
  • comical
  • companionable
  • conversable
  • convivial
  • cordial
  • curveting
  • curvetting
  • cutting capers
  • cutting up
  • daffy
  • dancing
  • delightful
  • disporting
  • dizzy
  • enjoyable
  • entertaining
  • facetious
  • festal
  • festive
  • fooling around
  • frisking
  • frolicking
  • frolicsome
  • fun-loving
  • funny
  • gamboling
  • gambolling
  • gay
  • glad
  • gladsome
  • gleeful
  • good-natured
  • grooving
  • happy
  • hilarious
  • hopping
  • horsing around
  • humorous
  • jocose
  • jocund
  • jokey
  • jolly
  • jollying
  • joshing
  • jovial
  • joyful
  • joyous
  • joyriding
  • jubilant
  • jumping
  • kiting
  • leaping
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • loony
  • loping
  • lots of laughs
  • mad
  • merry
  • mirthful
  • nutty
  • off-the-wall
  • perky
  • playful
  • pleasant
  • prancing
  • reveling
  • revelling
  • riotous
  • rip-roaring
  • rocking
  • roistering
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • roughhousing
  • saturnalian
  • skipping
  • skylarking
  • sociable
  • sporting
  • sportive
  • sprightly
  • springing
  • sunny
  • tripping
  • tumbling
  • unconstrained
  • uproarious
  • vivacious
  • wild
  • winsome
  • zappy
  • zingy
  • zippy

Antonyms for larking

  • depressed
  • disagreeable
  • dull
  • gloomy
  • grave
  • hateful
  • heavy-hearted
  • mean
  • moping
  • pouting
  • sad
  • serious
  • solemn
  • sorrowful
  • stewing
  • sulking
  • surly
  • tragic
  • troubled
  • unamusing
  • unfriendly
  • unfunny
  • unhappy
  • unpleasant
  • unsociable
  • upset
  • worried

Meanings of larking

  • verb
    1. To catch larks (type of bird).
    2. To sport, engage in harmless pranking.
    3. To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.
  • noun
    1. A spirited or playful adventure.

Example Sentences

  • The kids were larking around in the backyard, enjoying the sunny afternoon.
  • She loves larking with her friends after a long week at work.
  • The students were caught larking in the halls instead of attending class.
  • He spent the day larking about the city, exploring new places.
  • Despite the serious tone of the meeting, a little larking helped lighten the atmosphere.

On this page you'll find 146 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to larking, such as: affable, airy, amiable, amusing, animated, bantering, blithe.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

gamboling

  • amusement
  • binge
  • bounding
  • buffoonery
  • capering
  • carousing
  • carrying on
  • cavorting
  • clowning
  • curveting
  • curvetting
  • cutting capers
  • cutting up
  • dalliance
  • dancing
  • delight
  • devilment
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • disporting
  • diversion
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • fling
  • fooling around
  • friskiness
  • frisking
  • frolic
  • frolicking
  • fun
  • fun and games
  • hanky-panky
  • high jinks
  • hijinks
  • hilarity
  • hob
  • hobby
  • hobbyhorse
  • hopping
  • horseplay
  • horsing around
  • impishness
  • jinks
  • joyriding
  • kick
  • kiting
  • knavery
  • lark
  • larking
  • leaping
  • loping
  • merriment
  • merrymaking
  • mischief
  • mischievousness
  • pastime
  • play
  • playfulness
  • pleasance
  • pleasure
  • prancing
  • rascality
  • recreation
  • relaxation
  • revel
  • reveling
  • revelling
  • revelry
  • roguishness
  • roistering
  • rollick
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • roughhousing
  • skipping
  • skylarking
  • sport
  • sporting
  • sportiveness
  • spree
  • springing
  • tomfoolery
  • tripping
  • tumbling
  • waggery
  • wantonness
  • whoopee

jollification

mafficking

  • acting up
  • capering
  • carousing
  • carrying on
  • cavorting
  • cutting up
  • disporting
  • fooling around
  • frisking
  • frolicking
  • gamboling
  • gambolling
  • horsing around
  • hotdogging
  • larking
  • misbehaving
  • reveling
  • revelling
  • roaring
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • roughhousing
  • showboating
  • showing off
  • skylarking
  • wassailing

dabbling

  • amateurish
  • amusing
  • antic
  • artsy fartsy
  • bare
  • cavorting
  • coltish
  • coy
  • crude
  • cut short
  • dallying
  • dawdling
  • defective
  • deficient
  • delay
  • delaying
  • delightful
  • delighting
  • devilish
  • dilettante
  • dilly-dallying
  • disporting
  • diverting
  • elfish
  • energetic
  • enjoyable
  • entertaining
  • faulty
  • fay
  • formless
  • found wanting
  • fragmentary
  • frisking
  • frisky
  • frittering
  • frivoling
  • frivolous
  • frolic
  • frolicking
  • frolicsome
  • fun
  • gamboling
  • gambolling
  • gay
  • goldbricking
  • goofy
  • green
  • half-baked
  • half-cocked
  • half-done
  • hanging
  • hanging about
  • happy
  • idling
  • immature
  • imperfect
  • impish
  • in the making
  • in the rough
  • incomplete
  • jesting
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • joking
  • kittenish
  • knavish
  • lacking
  • larky
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • merry
  • messing around
  • mischievous
  • natural
  • not done
  • pixie
  • pixy
  • plain
  • playful
  • playing
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • poking
  • prankish
  • procrastinating
  • procrastination
  • puttering
  • rascally
  • raw
  • recreating
  • relaxing
  • resting
  • roguish
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • rookie
  • rough
  • roughhewn
  • screwing around
  • shapeless
  • silly
  • sketchy
  • skylarking
  • spirited
  • sportful
  • sporting
  • sportive
  • sprightly
  • spunky
  • teasing
  • tenderfoot
  • tentative
  • toying
  • trifling
  • unaccomplished
  • unadorned
  • unassembled
  • uncompleted
  • unconcluded
  • under construction
  • undeveloped
  • undone
  • unexecuted
  • unfashioned
  • unfulfilled
  • ungifted
  • unperfected
  • unpolished
  • unrefined
  • unskilled
  • vivacious
  • wanting
  • whimsical

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