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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | laughing stock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object of ridicule |
| Synonyms: | Aunt Sally, butt, dupe, fair game, fall guy, fool, goat, joke, laughingstock, stooge, target, victim |
| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, ridiculousness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, bombast, bull*, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rot, rubbish, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash*, tripe |
| Antonyms: | clarity, common sense, fact, intelligibility, sense, truth, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imitation, spoof |
| Synonyms: | apology, burlesque, caricature, cartoon, copy, derision, farce, irony, jest, joke, lampoon, mime, mimicry, misrepresentation, mock-heroic, mockery, pastiche, play-on, raillery, rib, ridicule, roast, satire, send-up, skit, takeoff, travesty |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | parody |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate, spoof |
| Synonyms: | ape, burlesque, caricature, copy, deride, disparage, distort, do a takeoff of, exaggerate, impersonate, jeer, jest, joke, lampoon, laugh at, mime, mimic, mock, poke fun at, put on*, ridicule, roast, satirize, send up, sheik, take off, travesty |
| Antonyms: | be truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | play |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have fun |
| Synonyms: | amuse oneself, be life of party, caper, carouse, carry on, cavort, clown, cut capers, cut up, dally, dance, disport, divert, entertain oneself, fool around, frisk, frolic, gambol, go on a spree, horse around, idle away, joke, jump, kibitz, kick up heels, let go, let loose, let one's hair down, make merry, mess around, rejoice, revel, romp, show off, skip, sport, toy, trifle |
| Antonyms: | work |
| Main Entry: | pleasantry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nice remark |
| Synonyms: | badinage, banter, bon mot, humor, jest, joke, joking, levity, merriment, quip, quirk, repartee, sally, squib, wit, witticism |
| Antonyms: | criticism |
| Main Entry: | pun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | play on words |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, calembour, conceit, double entendre, double meaning, equivoque, joke, paronomasia, quibble, quip, witticism |
| 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 |
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