| Main Entry: | takeoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving |
Synonyms: |
ascent, climb, departure, hop, jump, launch, liftoff, rise, upward flight |
Antonyms: |
arrival, coming, landing |
| Main Entry: | takeoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mockery, satire |
Synonyms: |
burlesque, caricature, cartoon, comedy, imitation, lampoon, mocking, parody, ridicule, send-up, spoof, travesty |
| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start of an event or action |
Synonyms: |
alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top |
Antonyms: |
completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination |
| Main Entry: | burlesque |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bawdy show; vaudeville |
Synonyms: |
burly, caricature, farce, lampoon, lampoonery, mock, mockery, parody, pastiche, peep show, revue, satire, send-up, spoof, strip, takeoff, travesty, vaudeville |
| Main Entry: | caricature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggerated description in writing, drawing |
Synonyms: |
burlesque, cartoon, distortion, farce, imitation, lampoon, libel, mimicry, mockery, parody, pasquinade, pastiche, put-on, ridicule, satire, send-up, sham, takeoff, travesty |
| Main Entry: | cartoon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny drawing, often with dialogue or caption |
Synonyms: |
animation, caricature, comic strip, drawing, lampoon, parody, representation, satire, sketch, takeoff |
| 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: | departure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving |
Synonyms: |
abandonment, adieu, bow out, congé, decampment, desertion, egress, egression, embarkation, emigration, escape, evacuation, exit, exodus, expatriation, farewell, flight, getaway, going, going away, goodbye*, hegira, migration, parting, passage, powder, quitting, recession, removal, retirement, retreat, sailing, separation, setting forth, setting out, stampede, start, takeoff, taking leave, taking off, vacation, vanishing act, walkout, withdrawal, withdrawing |
Antonyms: |
arrival, coming, entrance |
| Main Entry: | flight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flying; journey |
Synonyms: |
aerial navigation, aeronautics, arrival, aviation, avigation, departure, gliding, hop, jump, mounting, navigation, shuttle, soaring, take-off, transport, trip, volitation, voyage, winging |
| Main Entry: | imitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | simulation, substitution |
Synonyms: |
Xerox, apery, aping, carbon copy, clone, copy, counterfeit, counterfeiting, counterpart, ditto*, dupe*, duplicate, duplication, echoing, ersatz*, fake, forgery, image, impersonation, impression, likeness, match, matching, mime, mimesis, mimicry, mirroring, mockery, parallel, paralleling, paraphrasing, parody, parroting, patterning, phony, picture, reflection, replica, representing, reproduction, resemblance, ringer, semblance, sham*, simulacrum, takeoff, transcription, travesty |
Antonyms: |
difference, opposite, original, reverse |