jive

Other forms of jive

plural

jives·

past tense

jived·

present participle

jiving·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jive

What does jive mean?

jive means "a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jive?

jive has 1 syllable: jive. In IPA it is /ˈdʒaɪv/.

What is another word for jive?

Close synonyms include swing, swing music. 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 jive a common word?

jive is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.