Farcical

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Farcical \Far"ci*cal\, a.
     Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous;
     unnatural; unreal.
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           They deny the characters to be farcical, because they


           are ??tually in in nature.               --Gay.
     -- {Far"ci*cal*ly}, adv. -{Far"ci*cal*ness}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Farcical \Far"ci*cal\, a.
     Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See {Farcy}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  farcical
       adj : broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the
             wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green
             hair" [syn: {ludicrous}, {ridiculous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "farcical":
     absurd, amusing, broad, burlesque, camp, campy, caricatural, comic,
     comical, doggerel, droll, extravagant, foolish, funny, humorous,
     laughable, light, ludicrous, macaronic, mock-heroic, nonsensical,
     outrageous, parodic, preposterous, ridiculous, risible, satiric,
     silly, slapstick, tragicomic