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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banter |
| Synonyms: | badinage, fun, jesting, joking, joshing, ribbing, ridicule, teasing |
| 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: | ribbing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | teasing |
| Synonyms: | badgering, badinage, banter, bothering, chaff, disturbing, exasperating, harassing, irritating, joking, kidding, mocking, plaguing, provoking, raillery, taunt, taunting, tickling, tormenting, vexing |
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| Main Entry: | ludicrousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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: | Ridicule. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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-nouns
ridicule, derision; sardonic smile, sardonic grin; irrision; scoffing (disrespect); mockery, quiz, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaffe, badinage; quizzing; asteism., squib, satire, skit, quip, quib, grin., parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie; farce (drama); caricature., buffoonery (fun); practical joke; horseplay.
-verbs
ridicule, deride; snigger; laugh in one's sleeve; banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze [U.S.]; tehee; fleer; show up., play upon, play tricks upon; fool to the top of one's bent; laugh at, grin at, smile at; poke fun at., satirize, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty., turn into ridicule; make merry with; make fun of, make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; rally; scoff (disrespect)., raise a laugh (amuse); play the fool, make a fool of oneself.
-adjectives
derisory, derisive; mock; sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic; scurrilous (disrespectful).
-adverbs
in ridicule.
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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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