Antonyms for jived
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : jahyv |
Phonetic Transcription : dʒaɪv |
- admire
- aid
- approve
- assist
- be honest
- be modest
- be quiet
- be sad
- be serious
- be truthful
- break
- build up
- come clean
- commend
- compliment
- conceal
- confront
- contribute
- delight
- demolish
- deny
- deprecate
- destroy
- encounter
- face
- fail
- flatter
- free
- give
- help
- hide
- laud
- let go
- lose
- make happy
- meet
- offer
- order
- please
- praise
- protect
- quiet
- reassure
- receive
- refuse
- release
- repay
- reveal
- ruin
- soothe
- speak on
- support
- take on
- tell truth
- wreck
Definition of jived
Origin :- 1928, "to deceive playfully," also "empty, misleading talk" (n.) and "a style of fast, lively jazz and dance music," American English, from Black English, probably of African origin (cf. Wolof jev, jeu "talk about someone absent, especially in a disparaging manner"). Related: Jived; jiving. Used from 1938 for "New York City African-American slang."
- As in jest : verb joke
- As in joke : verb kid, tease
- As in pretend : verb fake, falsify
- As in prevaricate : verb deceive; stretch the truth
- As in ridicule : verb make contemptuous fun of something or someone
- As in satirize : verb ridicule
- As in banter : verb tease
- As in tease : verb aggravate, provoke
- As in trick : verb fool; play joke on
- As in bluff : verb deceive
- As in boast : verb brag
- As in brag : verb talk boastingly
- As in josh : verb joke
- As in twit : verb ridicule
- As in defraud : verb cheat, bilk
- As in delude : verb deceive, fool
- As in equivocate : verb avoid an issue
- As in fabricate : verb falsify, make up a story
- As in fib : verb tell an undetailed lie
- As in fool : verb trick, mislead
- As in hedge : verb avoid, dodge
Synonyms for jived
- act
- advertise
- affect
- aggrandize
- allege
- annoy
- assume
- attract attention
- badger
- bait
- bamboozle
- banter
- be at
- be deceitful
- be hypocritical
- be noncommittal
- beat around the bush
- bedevil
- beg the question
- beguile
- beleaguer
- belie
- betray
- blow
- blow hot and cold
- blow one's own horn
- blow smoke
- bluff
- bluster
- boast
- bother
- bully
- bunco
- burlesque
- burn
- caboodle
- caricature
- caricaturize
- cartoon
- catch
- cavil
- chaff
- cheat
- chicane
- chouse
- circumvent
- claim
- claim falsely
- clip
- cloud the issue
- cock-a-doodle-doo
- coin
- con
- concoct
- congratulate oneself
- contrive
- cop a plea
- cop out
- counterfeit
- cover up
- cozen
- create fiction
- crow
- deceive
- deflate
- defraud
- delude
- deride
- devil
- devise
- diddle
- disinform
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- distort
- disturb
- do
- do a number on
- do number on
- do out of
- dodge
- dog
- double deal
- double-cross
- double-talk
- duck
- dupe
- elude
- embezzle
- equivocate
- escape
- eschew
- evade
- exaggerate
- expose
- exult
- fabricate
- fake
- fake out
- falsify
- feign
- fence
- fib
- fish
- flatter oneself
- flaunt
- fleece
- fleer
- flimflam
- flip-flop
- flourish
- flout
- foil
- fool
- forge
- form
- fox
- frolic
- fudge
- fun
- gambol
- garble
- gasconade
- gibe
- gird
- give a good account of oneself
- give a hard time
- give run around
- give the run around
- gloat
- glory
- gnaw
- goad
- grandstand
- gull
- harass
- harry
- haze
- hector
- hedge
- hem and haw
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- hoodwink
- horse around
- hotdog
- hug oneself
- humbug
- humiliate
- illude
- impersonate
- importune
- impose on
- impose upon
- invent
- jape
- jazz
- jeer
- jest
- jive
- joke
- jolly
- josh
- juggle
- juke
- kid
- kid around
- lampoon
- laugh
- laugh at
- lay claim
- lay on thick
- lead on
- lead up garden path
- let on
- lie
- make a fool of
- make a game of
- make a laughing-stock
- make believe
- make fun of
- make like
- make merry
- make out
- make up
- malinger
- masquerade
- milk
- mimic
- mince words
- misguide
- mislead
- misrepresent
- misspeak
- mock
- mousetrap
- mouth
- needle
- nudge
- outfox
- outwit
- palter
- pan
- parody
- parry
- pass off
- pass oneself off as
- pass the buck
- pat oneself on the back
- pester
- phony up
- pick on
- pilfer
- plague
- plant
- play
- play a trick on
- play for a fool
- play the clown
- play trick on
- play tricks
- play-act
- poke fun
- poke fun at
- pooh-pooh
- prate
- preen
- pretend
- prevaricate
- profess
- promote
- psych
- psych out
- puff
- pull fast one
- pull one's leg
- pull wool over
- pun
- purport
- pussyfoot
- put down
- put on
- put one over on
- put up a front
- quibble
- quip
- quiz
- rag
- rail at
- rally
- raz
- razz
- revel
- rib
- ride
- ridicule
- rip off
- roast
- rob
- rodomontade
- rook
- run around
- run down
- satirize
- scam
- scoff
- scorn
- scout
- screw
- send up
- set up
- shaft
- sham
- shift
- shilly-shally
- shoot
- shovel
- show off
- show up
- showboat
- shuck
- shuck and jive
- shuffle
- sidestep
- simulate
- sit on the fence
- slam
- sling
- snap
- sneer
- snow
- sound
- sound off
- speak with forked tongue
- spoof
- sport
- stall
- stick
- stonewall
- stretch the truth
- string along
- strut
- suck in
- sucker
- sucker into
- swagger
- swindle
- swipe at
- take
- take for a ride
- take in
- take to the cleaner's
- takeoff
- talk big
- tantalize
- taunt
- tease
- tell a little white lie
- tell white lie
- temporize
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- throw
- torment
- trap
- travesty
- trick
- trifle
- triumph
- trump up
- twit
- unmask
- vapor
- vaunt
- vex
- victimize
- waffle
- weasel
- whitewash
- wisecrack
- worry
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