| Main Entry: | drollery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whimsicalness |
Synonyms: |
buffoonery, facetiousness, foolishness, jest, pleasantry, raillery, waggery, whimsicality, whimsy |
Antonyms: |
seriousness |
| Main Entry: | comedy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny entertainment |
Synonyms: |
ball*, burlesque, camp, chaffing, comic drama, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, facetiousness, farce, field day, fun, fun and games, funnies, funniness, gag show, grins, high camp, high time, hilarity, hoopla, humor, humorousness, interlude, jesting, joking, laughs, light entertainment, merry-go-round, picnic, play on, satire, schtick, send-up, sitcom, slapstick, takeoff, travesty, vaudeville, wisecracking, witticism, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
tragedy |
| Main Entry: | frolic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, revel |
Synonyms: |
antic, drollery, escapade, fun, fun and games, gaiety, gambol, game, high jinks, joke, joviality, lark, merriment, monkeyshines, play, prank, romp, shenanigan, skylarking, sport, spree, tomfoolery*, trick |
| Main Entry: | gag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practical joke |
Synonyms: |
crack, drollery, hoax, jest, quip, ruse, trick, wile, wisecrack, witticism |
| Main Entry: | humor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comedy, funniness |
Synonyms: |
amusement, badinage, banter, buffoonery, clowning, comicality, comicalness, drollery, facetiousness, farce, flippancy, fun, gag, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joke, joking, joyfulness, kidding, levity, lightness, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, tomfoolery, whimsy, wisecrack, wit, witticism, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
depression, drama, sadness, seriousness, tragedy, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | joke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fun, quip |
Synonyms: |
antic, bon mot, buffoonery, burlesque, caper, caprice, chestnut, clowning, drollery, epigram, escapade, farce, frolic, gag, gambol, game, ha-ha, hoodwinking, horseplay, humor, jape, jest, lark, laugh, mischief, monkeyshine, mummery, one-liner, parody, payoff, play, pleasantry, prank, pun, put-on, quirk, raillery, repartee, revel, rib, sally, saw, shaggy-dog story, shenanigan, snow job, sport, spree, stunt, tomfoolery, trick, vagary, whimsy, wisecrack, witticism, yarn |
| Main Entry: | quip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | witty communication, often verbal |
Synonyms: |
badinage, banter, bon mot, crack, drollery, gag, gibe, insult, jeer, jest, joke, mockery, offense, pleasantry, pun, repartee, retort, riposte, sally, satire, spoof, wisecrack, witticism |
| Main Entry: | sport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fun, joking |
Synonyms: |
badinage, banter, derision, drollery, escapade, frolic, horseplay, jest, jesting, joke, jollification, jollity, kidding, laughter, merriment, mirth, mockery, mummery, nonsense, pleasantry, practical joke, raillery, scorn, teasing, tomfoolery, trifling |
Antonyms: |
seriousness |
| Main Entry: | wit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
Synonyms: |
aphorism, badinage, banter, bon mot, burlesque, drollery, facetiousness, fun, gag, jest, jocularity, joke, lark, levity, pleasantry, practical joke, prank, pun, quip, raillery, repartee, sally, satire, trick, whimsicality, wisecrack, wittiness, wordplay |
Antonyms: |
seriousness |
| Main Entry: | comicality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
Synonyms: |
comedy, comicalness, drollery, farcicality, funniness, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, nonsense, wit, wittiness, zaniness |