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[syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Farcical \Far"ci*cal\, a.
Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
farcical
adj 1: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the
wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green
hair" [syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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