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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humor |
| 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: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creative thought, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy, idea, ideality, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, inventiveness, mental agility, notion, originality, perceptibility, realization, resourcefulness, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, unreality, verve, vision, visualization, wit, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
| Main Entry: | repartee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant conversation |
| Synonyms: | answer, badinage, banter, bon mot, comeback, humor, irony, persiflage, pleasantry, quip, raillery, rejoinder, reply, response, retort, riposte, sally, sarcasm, satire, wit, witticism, wittiness, wordplay |
| Antonyms: | argument, disagreement, fight |
| Main Entry: | wit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
| Synonyms: | aphorism, badinage, banter, bon mot, burlesque, drollery, facetiousness, fun, gag, jest, jocularity, joke, lark, levity, pleasantry, practical joke, prank, pun, quip, raillery, repartee, sally, satire, trick, whimsicality, wisecrack, wittiness, wordplay |
| Antonyms: | seriousness |
| Main Entry: | comicality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
| Synonyms: | comedy, comicalness, drollery, farcicality, funniness, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, nonsense, wit, wittiness, zaniness |
| Main Entry: | comicalness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
| Synonyms: | comedy, comicality, drollery, farcicality, funniness, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, nonsense, wit, wittiness, zaniness |
| 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: | 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 |
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