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 and divides as je-stin-gly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.