jestingly

1. 1.

   in jest

   “I asked him jokingly whether he thought he could drive the Calcutta-Peshawar express”

   Synonymsjokingly

Questions about jestingly

What does jestingly mean?

jestingly means "in jest".

How many syllables are in jestingly?

jestingly has 3 syllables: je-stin-gly. The stress falls on "je".

What is another word for jestingly?

Close synonyms include jokingly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jestingly a common word?

jestingly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.