Local English word record

bantering

adjective · 1 sense

cleverly amusing in tone

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Examples

  • a bantering tone
  • facetious remarks
  • tongue-in-cheek advice

Word relationships

Synonyms

facetious, tongue-in-cheek

Source and method

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Princeton WordNet 3.0