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Jesting vs Farcical - What's the difference?

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Jesting is a related term of farcical.


As adjectives the difference between jesting and farcical

is that jesting is facetious while farcical is resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.

As a noun jesting

is joking.

As a verb jesting

is .

jesting

English

Noun

  • joking
  • * Shakespeare
  • Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings .
  • bantering; ridicule
  • mocking
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • facetious
  • humorous
  • * Macaulay
  • He will find that these are no jesting matters.
  • playful; mocking
  • jeering
  • Verb

    (head)
  • farcical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd
  • The actions of politicians in office are a farcical joke to most of their constituents.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable. }}