jives (Meaning)
jives
a special jargon of difficult or slang terms, to talk in a foolish, deceptive, or unserious way, phony, the jargon of hipsters, swing music or the dancing performed to it, to say foolish, deceptive, or unserious things to (someone), swing music or dancing performed to it, swing sense 5, kid entry 2, to dance or play jive, to dance to or play jive (see jive entry 1 sense 2), glib, deceptive, or foolish talk
Synonyms & Antonyms of jives
jives Sentence Examples
- The new employee's personality jived well with the company culture.
- The music at the party jived perfectly with the energetic crowd.
- His witty remarks didn't jive with the serious tone of the meeting.
- The doctor's diagnosis didn't jive with the patient's symptoms.
- The story presented in the article jives with the information I've gathered elsewhere.
- Their relationship started to crumble when their values stopped jiving.
- The sales pitch didn't jive with the audience's needs.
- The dance moves they were teaching at the class didn't jive with their level of skill.
- The company's mission statement doesn't jive with its actual practices.
- I'm not sure if her alibi jives with the evidence presented in court.
FAQs About the word jives
a special jargon of difficult or slang terms, to talk in a foolish, deceptive, or unserious way, phony, the jargon of hipsters, swing music or the dancing perfo
slangs, idioms, vocabularies, languages,terminologies, lingoes, dialects, cants,patter, shoptalk
No antonyms found.
The new employee's personality jived well with the company culture.
The music at the party jived perfectly with the energetic crowd.
His witty remarks didn't jive with the serious tone of the meeting.
The doctor's diagnosis didn't jive with the patient's symptoms.
