All asteism synonyms

noun asteism

• fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
• repartee — a quick, witty reply.
• banter — Banter is teasing or joking talk that is amusing and friendly.
• teasing — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
• ribbing — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
• raillery — good-humored ridicule; banter.
• persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
• badinage — Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.
• play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
• satire — the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
• pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
• derision — If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them.
• roasting — roasted: roast beef.
• fun — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
• sport — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
• irony — the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
• parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
• razzing — to deride; make fun of; tease.
• joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
• joshing — good-natured banter.
• kidding — Informal. a child or young person.
• jesting — a joke or witty remark; witticism.
• lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
• chaffing — good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.
• bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness