JESTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jesting mean? 

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

1. characterized by jokes and good humor

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JESTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by jokes and good humor

Synonyms:

jesting; jocose; jocular; joking

Similar:

humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)

 Context examples 

He spoke now in a half-jesting fashion, but a look of terror still lurked at the back of his eyes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She got calmer by degrees, and then we soothed her; now talking encouragingly, and now jesting a little with her, until she began to raise her head and speak to us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest in his eyes as he looked at me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I told him of our friendship and how you trust to me in the matter, he said: 'You must tell him all you think. Tell him what I think, if you can guess it, if you will. Nay, I am not jesting. This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.'

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Charles and Mary still talked on in the same style; he, half serious and half jesting, maintaining the scheme for the play, and she, invariably serious, most warmly opposing it, and not omitting to make it known that, however determined to go to Camden Place herself, she should not think herself very well used, if they went to the play without her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)