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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | falderal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | folderol, foolishness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, baloney, bunk, craziness, garbage, gibberish, gobbledygook, horse feathers, lunacy, nonsense, stupidity, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | fooling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | joking, tricks |
| Synonyms: | bluffing, buffoonery, clownishness, farce, frolicking, high jinks, horseplay, jesting, joshing, kidding, making light, mockery, nonsense, pretense, roughhouse, roughhousing, rowdiness, sham*, skylarking, spoofing, teasing, trifling |
| Antonyms: | seriousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frivolity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | silliness, childishness |
| Synonyms: | coquetting, dallying, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, folly, fribble, frippery, frivolousness, fun, gaiety, game, giddiness, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, puerility, shallowness, sport, superficiality, toying, trifling, triviality, volatility, whimsicality, whimsy |
| Antonyms: | sensibility, seriousness, wiseness |
| Main Entry: | fun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, play |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, ball*, big time, blast*, buffoonery, celebration, cheer, clowning, distraction, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, escapade, festivity, foolery, frolic, gaiety, gambol, game*, good time, grins, high jinks, holiday, horseplay, jesting, jocularity, joke, joking, jollity, joy, junketing, laughter, living it up, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, nonsense, pastime, picnic, playfulness, pleasure, recreation, rejoicing, relaxation, riot, romp, romping, solace, sport, tomfoolery*, treat, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | sadness, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hocus-pocus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleight of hand |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, abracadabra, artifice, cant, chant, charm, cheating, chicanery, conjuring, deceit, deception, deception, delusion, flimflam, fraud, gibberish, gobbledegook, hoax, hocus, humbug, imposture, incantation, jargon, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic, magic words, monkey business, mumbo jumbo, mumbo jumbo, mummery, mystification, nonsense, occultism, open sesame, rigmarole, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, spell, swindle, trick, trickery |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | jargon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | specialized language; dialect |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, argot, balderdash, banality, bombast, bunk, buzzwords, cant, cliché, colloquialism, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian, gibberish, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, neologism, newspeak, nonsense, overused term, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, shoptalk, slang, slanguage, speech, stale language, street talk, tongue, trite language, twaddle, usage, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Antonyms: | standard |
| Main Entry: | monkey business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shenanigans |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, antics, buffoonery, carrying-on, clowning around, craziness, disobedience, foolery, foolishness, hanky-panky, high jinks, hokey-pokey, horse feathers, horseplay, inanity, insanity, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, misbehavior, mischief, mischief-making, monkeyshine, nonsense, poppycock, prank, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot |
| Main Entry: | paradox |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contradiction, puzzle |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22, absurdity, ambiguity, anomaly, catch, enigma, error, inconsistency, mistake, mystery, nonsense, oddity, opposite, reverse |
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