Word Meanings - RAILLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. Let raillery be without malice or heat. B. Jonson. Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. Addison.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAILLERY)
- Banter
- Badinage
- chaff
- mockery
- derision
- ridicule
- irony
- jeering
- raillery
- Irony
- Satire
- banter
- quiz
- rally
- taunt
- sarcasm
- Jest
- Joke
- fun
- sport
- quip
- witticism
- Ridicule
- Derision
- burlesque
- caricature
- satire
- jeer
- sneer
- cachinnation
- disrespect
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RAILLERY)
Related words: (words related to RAILLERY)
- SARCASM
A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire; - FLATTER
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - RIDICULER
One who ridicules. - CHAFFERY
Traffic; bargaining. Spenser. - TAUNTER
One who taunts. - BADINAGE
Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton. - FLATTERY
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver - SARCASMOUS
Sarcastic. "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras. - SPORTLESS
Without sport or mirth; joyless. - SNEER
1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. 2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. 3. To show mirth awkwardly. Tatler. Syn. - CHAFFINCH
A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch. - JEERER
A scoffer; a railer; a mocker. - SPORTING
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house - SPORTIVE
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n. - DISRESPECT
Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope. - SPORTAL
Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden. - RALLY
To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite. - FLATTERINGLY
With flattery. - SATIRE
a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See Sate, Sad, a., and 1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up - DISPORT
Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton. - SUTURALLY
In a sutural manner. - BEFLATTER
To flatter excessively. - MISTRANSPORT
To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall. - CENTRALLY
In a central manner or situation. - PASTORALLY
1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor. - TRANSPORTING
That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble. - TRANSPORTAL
Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin. - ORALLY
1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher. - TRANSPORTABILITY
The quality or state of being transportable. - LATERALLY
By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side. - LITERALLY
1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.