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farcically Definition


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farce
noun
    1a. A comedy involving a series of ridiculously unlikely turns of events;
      Thesaurus: satire, parody, send-up, burlesque.
    1b. Comedies of this type.
      Thesaurus: satire, parody, low comedy, slapstick, buffoonery.
    2. An absurd situation; something ludicrously badly organized.
    3. Forcemeat; stuffing.
Derivative: farcical
adj
    Ridiculous or absurd
      Thesaurus: funny, silly, amusing, droll, comic, facetious, nonsensical, laughable, ridiculous, preposterous, ludicrous, absurd; Antonym: sensible.
Derivative: farcically
adverb
    Etymology: 16c in sense 1; 14c in sense 3: French, meaning ‘stuffing'.



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