Synonyms of jokes

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noun

plural of joke

1

as in laughs

something said or done to cause laughter

he was known for his hilarious jokes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• laughs
• gags
• giggles
• pranks
• screams
• wisecracks
• funnies
• witticisms
• quips
• ribs
• one-liners
• parodies
• comedies
• jests
• japes
• yuks
• tricks
• pleasantries
• sallies
• joshes
• drolleries
• humors
• cracks
• waggeries
• boffs
• nifties
• antics
• riots
• buffooneries
• wits
• panics
• banters
• riffs
• capers
• practical jokes
• knee-slappers
• burlesques
• caricatures
• repartees
• mocks
• lampoons
• boffolas
• mockeries
• wordplays
• monkeyshines
• railleries
• leg-pulls
• put-ons
• thigh-slappers
• persiflages

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as in parodies

a poor, insincere, or insulting imitation of something

her rendition of the national anthem is a joke

Synonyms & Similar Words

• parodies
• caricatures
• cartoons
• comedies
• shams
• farces
• hoaxes
• simulations
• burlesques
• pretenses
• travesties
• mockeries
• counterfeits
• forgeries
• takeoffs
• lampoons
• fakes
• phonies
• knockoffs
• humbug

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• tributes
• homages

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as in fools

a person or thing that is made fun of

having lost his looks and his voice years ago, these days he's just a show business joke and fodder for late-night comedy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fools
• targets
• jests
• sports
• victims
• butts
• mocks
• mockeries
• derisions
• laughingstocks
• marks
• suckers
• monkeys
• pigeons
• gulls
• dupes
• saps
• chumps
• fall guys

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• favorites
• pets
• darlings

jokes

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verb

present tense third-person singular of joke

1

as in kids

to make jokes

he was known for his ability to joke about his lack of anything resembling a social life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• kids
• quips
• funs
• jests
• wisecracks
• teases
• banters
• fools
• amuses
• mocks
• gags
• yuks
• japes
• parodies
• jollies
• ribs
• chaffs
• entertains
• ridicules
• gibes
• cracks wise
• jeers
• rallies
• jives
• joshes
• caricatures
• rags
• satirizes
• razzes
• lampoons
• hazes
• diverts

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as in teases

to make fun of in a good-natured way

oh, don't get offended, I was just joking you

Synonyms & Similar Words

• kids
• teases
• ribs
• roasts
• razzes
• joshes
• chaffs
• rallies
• banters
• goofs on
• quips
• jives
• rides
• takes the mickey out of
• jests
• wisecracks
• fools
• strings along
• gags
• funs
• yuks
• jollies
• japes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of jokes

Noun

Television’s rise forced it to reinvent itself by introducing live disc jockeys who played music and told jokes. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

As a teenager, Davidson would sit in the back of the bus and write jokes on his way to and from basketball games and try them on his teammates. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

Martha Plimpton, Hoon Lee, and Ciarán Hinds spent the evening trading jokes while sipping on spicy margaritas. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026

Drawing on a variety of sources—from philosophical treatises to poems and popular jokes—this compact study shows how writers of the Roman era rendered animals, domestic and wild, as imperial subjects. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

They trade glances across the table and crack jokes that don’t always need explaining; the years together have apparently given them their own shorthand and inside humor. — Crystal Bell, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026

The jokes made about the city were the work of Jack Burditt, a native of northeast Ohio who co-wrote the episode. — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026

Underneath the jokes and the proverbial bull-poking is a man who genuinely loves his genre and is dissatisfied with its trajectory today. — Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026

Is there a kind and polite way to tell this gentleman to stop telling me jokes? — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026

Verb

The Facebook post quickly took off on social media and had 1,700 comments and reactions within three hours, most of them jokes. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 1 Oct. 2026

Diners who sit in those four seats are like guinea pigs, Justus jokes. — Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026

The pregnant mom of three says that her doctors have no concerns, and jokes that her dermatologist is happy. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026

Jepsen jokes that so many of the songs on Day and Night have lyrics about sleeping all day. — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

Janier jokes that he was born in a cheese vat and that milk runs through his veins. — Vivian Song, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

Johnson jokes, miming a phone to her ear as Cherkovskiy puts his head in hands. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026

When the dog doesn’t return, someone jokes that maybe it’s gone to see the new Rin Tin Tin movie. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

Chris Cooper, a political scientist at Western Carolina University (of no relation to the candidate), sometimes jokes that Roy Cooper is like Mister Rogers, if Mister Rogers carried a switchblade. — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026