BANTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bantering mean? 

• BANTERING (adjective)
  The adjective BANTERING has 1 sense:

1. cleverly amusing in tone

  Familiarity information: BANTERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANTERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cleverly amusing in tone

Synonyms:

bantering; facetious; tongue-in-cheek

Context example:

tongue-in-cheek advice

Similar:

humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)

 Context examples 

He shook his head in a bantering way, and regarded me with laughing eyes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But he did not have it in him to be angry with the love-master, and when that god elected to laugh at him in a good-natured, bantering way, he was nonplussed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)