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jokingly

/ˈdʒəʊ.kɪŋ.liː/US/ˈdʒoʊ.kɪŋ.li/

jokingly adverb: in a joking manner.

Adverb

jokingly (comparative more jokingly, superlative most jokingly)

  1. In a joking manner.
    • San Jose, the county seat, is jokingly referred to as “Man Jose” by the locals, and with good reason: In the 22 to 29 age cohort, Santa Clara County has 37,410 never-married, college-grad men versus 27,147 never-married, college-grad women.2015, Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game, Hachette UK, →ISBN
    • Ramsay and Lil Nas X’s panini party comes less than two weeks after the latter had jokingly asked the “Masterchef” star to make a guest appearance on the remix of his latest single, “Panini.”2019 July 5, Michael Bartiromo, “Gordon Ramsay and Lil Nas X meet up to make panini sandwiches, play with knives”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019

jokingly meaning in Urdu

jokingly in Urdu

مذاقاً

Examples of jokingly in a sentence

  • Jimmy jokingly called Bob a doofus. Bob took the insult seriously.
  • I told him to hand me a calculator and he jokingly placed an adding machine at my side.
  • Some people jokingly referred to it as a “butt chin.” Sheppard's dimpled chin wasn't at all unsightly.

All 18 example sentences with jokingly

Forms of jokingly

comparativemore jokingly
superlativemost jokingly

Origin of jokingly

From joking + -ly.

Words formed from jokingly

Questions about jokingly

What does jokingly mean?
Jokingly means in a joking manner.
What is jokingly in Urdu?
Jokingly in Urdu is مذاقاً. See Jokingly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is jokingly?
Jokingly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce jokingly?
Jokingly is pronounced /ˈdʒoʊ.kɪŋ.li/ (US).

Words near jokingly in the dictionary

  1. joking around
  2. joking it up
  3. joking relationship
  4. joking relationships
  5. joking up
  6. jokingly
  7. jokings
  8. jokish
  9. jokist
  10. jokists
  11. Jokkmokk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jokingly (page history and authors); jokingly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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