farce
Meaning of farce
noun
- a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces
early 16th century: from French, literally ‘stuffing’, from farcir ‘to stuff’, from Latin farcire . An earlier sense of ‘forcemeat stuffing’ became used metaphorically for comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage.
Information about farce
- It is a name.
- The plural form of farce is: farces.
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Hyphenation of farce
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- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- farce is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
farce synonyms
Meaning farce comedy:
Meaning forcemeat:
Meaning stuff:
Meaning comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events:
Meaning an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody:
Meaning a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of speciality acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance:
Meaning behaviour that is ridiculous but amusing:
Meaning a short comedy sketch or piece of humorous writing, especially a parody:
Meaning a small firework that burns with a hissing sound before exploding:
Meaning a satire or lampoon, originally one displayed or delivered in a public place:
farce antonyms
Meaning an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe:
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Words that rhyme with farce
Arce, Barce, Carce, scarce, unscarce, Darce, Bearce, Pearce, pearce, searce, enfarce, infarce, garce
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