kid
verb [I or T] /kɪd/ (-dd-) informalDefinition
› to say something as a joke, often making someone believe something that is not true: Oh no, I've forgotten your birthday! Hey, just/only kidding! You won first prize? You're kidding! (= I'm really surprised.) I'm just kidding you!Teasing kid yourself › to believe something that is not true, usually because you want it to be true: He says there's a good chance she'll come back to him but I think he's kidding himself.Believing
(Definition of kid verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Analysing and evaluating
- Aware
- Believable
- Changing your mind
- Concluding and deducing
- Continually thinking about
- Decisions and deciding
- Deep in thought
- Difficult to understand
- Dreaming
- Easy to understand
- Empathy and sensitivity
- Experienced
- Experts and specialists
- Expressing and asking opinions
- Forgetting and forgetfulness
- Guesses and assumptions
- Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- Ideas, concepts and theories
- Imagining and conceiving
- Inability and awkwardness
- Inexperienced (of people)
- Inexperienced people and lack of experience
- Inspiration and inspiring
- Intelligence
- Intelligent people
- Judgments and analyses
- Knowledge and awareness
- Logic and reason
- Memory and memories
- Mind and personality
- Misunderstanding
- Not believable
- Not believing
- Not expected or planned
- Opinions, beliefs and points of view
- People who analyse and judge
- People who make predictions
- Philosophy
- Planning, expecting and arranging
- Plans and arrangements
- Predicting things and intuition
- Remembering, reminding and reminders
- Skill, talent and ability
- Skilled, talented and able
- Solving and solutions
- Stupid and silly
- Stupid and silly behaviour
- Stupid and silly people
- Testing, checking and experimenting
- Thinking and contemplating
- Trusting and not trusting
- Unaware
- Understanding and comprehending
- Wise and sensible
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Synonyms and related words:
- accept verb (BELIEVE)
- article of faith noun
- ascribe sth to sb phrasal verb
- belief noun
- believe in sth phrasal verb
- believe verb
- credit verb (BELIEVE)
- deluded adjective
- evidently adverb
- feel it in your bones idiom
- give sb the benefit of the doubt idiom
- gospel noun (BELIEFS)
- hold verb (BELIEVE)
- recognize verb (ACCEPT)
- room for doubt idiom
- see sth in sb/sth phrasal verb
- seeing is believing idiom
- self-delusion noun
- swear by sth phrasal verb
- under preposition (EXPERIENCING)
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