Synonyms of monkeying

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noun

as in funning

wildly playful or mischievous behavior

all that monkeying was sure to end in someone or something getting hurt

Synonyms & Similar Words

• funning
• joking
• clowning
• hijinks
• tomfoolery
• skylarking
• horseplay
• buffoonery
• monkey business
• clownery
• roughhousing
• roughhouse
• high jinks
• playfulness
• slapstick
• horsing around
• foolery
• monkeyshine(s)
• shenanigan(s)
• silliness
• nonsense
• mischief
• jesting
• sporting
• trickery
• deviltry
• rowdiness
• cavorting
• rowdyism
• boisterousness
• gambolling
• frolicking
• rambunctiousness
• romping
• foolishness
• rascality
• clownishness
• gamboling
• childishness
• roguishness
• merrymaking
• frivolity
• roistering
• revelry
• prankishness
• roguery
• devilry
• sportiveness
• rumbustiousness
• mischievousness
• waggery
• knavery
• impishness

monkeying

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adjective

as in ornery

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ornery
• roguish
• rascally
• impish
• prankish
• knavish
• balky
• wayward
• wild
• uncontrollable
• elfish
• waggish
• monkeyish
• restive
• arch
• perverse
• wrongheaded
• recalcitrant
• ungovernable
• dissolute
• wilful
• intractable
• improper
• rowdy
• pixieish
• unruly
• disobedient
• refractory
• corrupt
• untoward
• obstreperous
• disorderly
• uncouth
• impudent
• evil
• indecorous
• disrespectful
• naughty
• transgressing
• defiant
• willful
• headstrong
• wicked
• mischievous
• insolent
• errant
• impolite
• unmannerly
• misbehaving
• ruffianly
• rude
• contrary
• mutinous
• selfish
• rebellious
• ill-mannered
• insurgent
• ill-natured
• thoughtless
• unkind
• bad
• froward
• inconsiderate
• unkindly
• disobliging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• behaved
• proper
• complying
• orderly
• correct
• moral
• nice
• compliant
• obedient
• clean
• acquiescent
• behaving
• dutiful
• submissive
• decent
• divine
• polite
• kindly
• decorous
• respectable
• courteous
• thoughtful
• considerate
• amenable
• angelic
• heavenly
• tractable
• docile
• pleasant
• cherubic
• amiable
• good-natured
• modest
• mannerly
• complaisant
• adult
• discreet
• mature
• governable
• angelical
• obliging
• grown-up

monkeying

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verb

present participle of monkey

as in aping

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aping
• copying
• mimicking
• imitating
• parodying
• mocking
• miming
• travestying
• playing
• impersonating
• masquerading (as)
• posing (as)
• acting
• performing
• personating
• portraying