Synonyms of the word

tongue-in-cheek

• adj. (idiomatic) Not intended seriously; jocular or humorous.
• adv. (obsolete) With contempt.
• adv. With irony.

bantering

• n. teasing.
• n. joking; jesting.
• v. present participle of banter.
• adj. That teases.

banteringly

• adv. In a bantering manner.

facetious

• adj. Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
• adj. Pleasantly humorous; jocular.

facetiously

• adv. In a facetious or flippant manner; in a manner that treats serious issues with deliberately inappropriate…
• adv. (dated) In a pleasantly humorous or playful fashion.

humorous

• adj. Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
• adj. Showing humor; witty, jocular.
• adj. (obsolete) Damp or watery.
• adj. (obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.

humourous

• adj. (chiefly Britain, uncommon, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of humorous.

jokingly

• adv. In a joking manner.