| Main Entry: | drollness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
Synonyms: |
comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, farcicality, funniness, hilariousness, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, waggery, waggishness, wittiness |
| 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: | farcicality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
Synonyms: |
clowning, comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, farce, farcicalness, funniness, humorousness, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludicrousness, waggishness, wit, witticism, wittiness, zaniness |
| Main Entry: | funniness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
Synonyms: |
comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, farcicality, hilariousness, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, waggery, waggishness, wittiness |
| 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: | ridiculousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
Synonyms: |
bee, bent*, bias, caprice, character, comedy, comicality, comicalness, complexion, conceit, disposition, drollery, drollness, fancy, farcicality, frame of mind, funniness, humorousness, individualism, individuality, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludicrousness, makeup, mind, nature, notion, personality, propensity, quirk, spirits, strain, temper, tone, vagary, vein, whim, wit, 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: | Ridiculousness. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
ridiculousness; comicality, oddity; extravagance, drollery., farce, comedy; burlesque (ridicule); buffoonery (fun); frippery; doggerel verses; absurdity; bombast (unmeaning); anticlimax, bathos; monstrosity (unconformity); laughingstock.
-verbs
be ridiculous; pass from the sublime to the ridiculous; make one laugh; play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity.
-adjectives
ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque; awkward (ugly)., extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic., drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible (unimportant); doggerel; ironical (derisive); risible.
-phrases
risum teneatis amici [Horace]; rideret Heraclitus; du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [Napoleon].
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