comicality

  • 41zaniness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality of being laughable or comical: comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, farcicality, funniness, humor, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludi crousness, ridiculousness, wit,… …

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  • 42green gilbert — n British a thick piece of mucus from the nose. A schoolchildren s term which has been in use since the 1950s and is now con sidered respectable enough to be said on television. The choice of Gilbert is due to the supposed inherent comicality of… …

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  • 43wally — n British 1. a pickled gherkin. This old working class name for a bottled delicacy is still heard in London. It may be a variation of olly , a corruption of olives , to which the gherkins were likened by earlier unso phisticated eaters. ► Want a… …

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  • 44wallie — n British 1. a pickled gherkin. This old working class name for a bottled delicacy is still heard in London. It may be a variation of olly , a corruption of olives , to which the gherkins were likened by earlier unso phisticated eaters. ► Want a… …

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  • 45comical — adjective causing laughter; amusing. Derivatives comicality noun (archaic). comically adverb …

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  • 46drollery — n. Pleasantry, fun, facetiousness, waggishness, waggery, buffoonery, comicality …

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  • 47absurdity — n 1. ridiculousness, ridiculosity, silliness, foolishness, folly, childishness, tomfoolery, ab surdness; ludicrousness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, nonsensicality, senselessness; amphigory, bosh, poppycock, drivel, gibberish, balderdash, fiddle… …

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  • 48folly — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, inanity, point lessness, fatuousness; senselessness, nonsense, nonsen sicalness, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, Archaic. insipience; unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicalness, illogicality; preposterousness,… …

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  • 49inanity — n 1. silliness, absurdity, absurdness, pointlessness, fatuousness, foolishness, Archaic. insip ience, folly; tomfoolery, foolery, fooling, clownery; senselessness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, nonsensicality, meaninglessness; poppycock, amphigory,… …

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  • 50comical — /ˈkɒmɪkəl / (say komikuhl) adjective 1. provoking laughter, or amusing; funny. 2. Obsolete relating to or of the nature of comedy. 3. queer; odd; strange. –comicality /kɒməˈkæləti/ (say komuh kaluhtee), comicalness, noun –comically, adverb …