jokingly

«jokingly» in Mova's school dictionary: in a joking way, not seriously, to be funny — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb (jokingly)

meaning for a pupil

Jokingly means in a joking way, not seriously, to be funny. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday life it tells the reader that words were not meant seriously. Phrases: say jokingly, jokingly called, half jokingly.

examples

• "You're so slow!" she said jokingly. tree →
• Dad jokingly called the dog "Your Majesty". tree →
• He jokingly asked if he could have all the cake. tree →
• I only said it jokingly, so please don't be upset. tree →
• The team jokingly called their old bus "the Rocket". tree →
• Half jokingly, Mum said she would sell my brother. tree →
• And so this Soldier gets alongside of the merchant's daughter, and says to her jokingly-- tree →

note

From joke + -ingly. Similar: teasingly, playfully, in jest. Careful: something said jokingly can still hurt someone's feelings.

In the corpora

• "Shuffled off this mortal coil" means died; it comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet and is used jokingly.
• "Gone to meet his maker" means died; "his maker" is God, and the phrase is often used jokingly.
• "Gave up the ghost" means died; it is also said jokingly of a machine that stops working for good.
• "The dearly departed" means the dead; it is polite and is sometimes used jokingly.
• "Resting" means out of work, said jokingly of an actor (mostly UK).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «jokingly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.