| 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: | 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 |
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depression, drama, sadness, seriousness, tragedy, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | levity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funniness, silliness |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness, festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs, lightheartedness, mirth, picnic, pleasantry, repartee, trifling, triviality, volatility, wit |
Antonyms: |
gravity, 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: | drollery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whimsicalness |
Synonyms: |
buffoonery, facetiousness, foolishness, jest, pleasantry, raillery, waggery, whimsicality, whimsy |
Antonyms: |
seriousness |
| Main Entry: | humorousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
Synonyms: |
amusement, badinage, banter, buffoonery, clowning, comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, facetiousness, farce, farcicality, flippancy, fun, funniness, gag, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity |
| Main Entry: | jocosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
Synonyms: |
amusement, badinage, banter, buffoonery, clowning, comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, facetiousness, farce, farcicality, flippancy, fun, funniness, gag, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, humorousness, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocularity, joke, joking, joyfulness, kidding, levity, lightness, ludicrousness, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, ridiculousness, tomfoolery, whimsy, wisecrack, wit, witticism, wittiness, zaniness |
| Main Entry: | ludicrousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
Synonyms: |
amusement, badinage, banter, buffoonery, clowning, comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, facetiousness, farce, farcicality, flippancy, fun, funniness, gag, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, humorousness, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joke, joking, joyfulness, kidding, levity, lightness, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, ridiculousness, tomfoolery, whimsy, wisecrack, wit, witticism, wittiness, zaniness |
| Main Entry: | ludicrousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
awkward, baroque, bizarre, bombastic, burlesque, comic, comical, contemptible, doggerel, droll, drollish, eccentric, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, farcical, funny, gimcrack, grotesque, inflated, ironical, laughable, ludicropathetic, ludicrous, mock heroic, monstrous, odd, out of the way, outlandish, preposterous, quaint, queer, quizzical, ridiculous, risible, rum, serio, strange, tragi, whimsical as a dancing bear
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| Concept: | Wit. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
wit, humor, wittiness; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry., farce, buffoonery, fooling, tomfoolery; shenanigan(s) [U.S.], harlequinade [more]; broad farce, broad humor; fun, espieglerie; vis comica., jocularity; jocosity, jocoseness; facetiousness; waggery, waggishness; whimsicality; comicality., banter, badinage, retort, repartee, smartness, ready wit, qui-pro-quo; ridicule., jest, joke; facetiae, quips and cranks; capital joke; canorae nugae; standing jest, standing joke, conceit, quip, quirk, crank, quiddity, concetto, plaisanterie, brilliant idea; merry thought, bright thought, happy thought; sally; flash of wit, flash of merriment; scintillation; mot, mot pour rire; witticism, smart saying, bon-mot,jeu d'esprit,epigram; jest book; dry joke quodlibet, cream of the jest., word-play, jeu de mots; play of words, play upon words; pun, punning; double entente (ambiguity); quibble, verbal qubibble; conundrum (riddle); anagram, acrostic, double acrostic, trifling, idle conceit, turlupinade., old joke, Joe Miller.
-verbs
joke, jest, crack a joke, cut jokes; perpetrate a joke; perpetrate a pun; make fun of, make merry with; set the table in a roar (amuse)., retort; banter (ridicule); ridentem dicere verum; joke at one's expense.
-adjectives
-adverbs
in joke, in jest, in sport, in play.
-phrases
adhibenda est in jocando moderatio; "gentle dullness ever loves a joke" [Pope]; "leave this kean encounter of our wits" [Richard III].
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Antonyms: |
dullness |
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