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| Main Entry: |
comicality
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
| Synonyms: | comedy, comicalness, drollery, farcicality, funniness, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, nonsense, wit, wittiness, zaniness |
| Main Entry: | craziness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foolishness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, brainlessness, flakiness, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsense, nuttiness, senselessness, silliness, tomfoolery, wackiness, zaniness |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | imbecility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foolishness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, bunk, carrying-on, claptrap, craziness, dumb trick, folly, fool trick, foolery, horse feathers, idiocy, impracticality, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, madness, mistake, nonsense, poppycock, preposterousness, rubbish*, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tomfoolery, tommyrot, twaddle, unreasonableness, unwiseness, weakness*, witlessness, zaniness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | ridiculousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
| Synonyms: | bee, bent*, bias, caprice, character, comedy, comicality, comicalness, complexion, conceit, disposition, drollery, drollness, fancy, farcicality, frame of mind, funniness, humorousness, individualism, individuality, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludicrousness, makeup, mind, nature, notion, personality, propensity, quirk, spirits, strain, temper, tone, vagary, vein, whim, wit, wittiness, zaniness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | senselessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foolishness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, bunk, carrying-on, claptrap, craziness, dumb trick, folly, fool trick, foolery, horse feathers, idiocy, imbecility, impracticality, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, madness, mistake, nonsense, poppycock, preposterousness, rubbish*, silliness, stupidity, tomfoolery, tommyrot, twaddle, unreasonableness, unwiseness, weakness*, witlessness, zaniness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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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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