Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or of the nature of a farce; droll; ludicrous; ridiculous; absurd.
- Pertaining to farcy.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See farcy, n.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
Etymologies
- From farce + -ic-al, after comical, etc. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He also faces a travel ban pending investigations on what he called "farcical accusations" of inciting violent protests in December.”
“I don't know if I should use the word farcical, but I think most of the teams you could pick without running through the thing about licensing.”
“Pets and dolls have taken the place of children in farcical-but-sad rituals previously reserved for children.”
“Indeed, for visitors, part of the entertainment onboard the junk ultimately came from watching Chinese crew members participate in farcical tableaux vivantes that presented a grotesque versions of Chinese customs.”
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“The word farcical would bestow a generous description on "Scopes II".”
“geographical Carnival,' as we called the farcical Congress of last”
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“Playing devil’s advocate for a second, I have to conduct sickness reviews on staff and I refuse to get involved in farcical ‘Action Plans’ like the examples above.”
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“DP NCOP member James Selfe said it was "very unfortunate" that the first formal NCOP meeting of this nature "ended in a situation which can only be described as farcical".”
“Public hearings on controversial draft legislation likely to have a substantial impact on the pharmaceutical industry were described as farcical by opposition political parties after amendments to the legislation were submitted as soon as the hearing began on Monday morning.”
“In 2006, he was sentenced to four-and-a-half years during a trial that his legal defenders described as farcical.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘farcical’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Sicle
I sicle, you sicle, we're all sick for something-sicle
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
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missnowayull's list
gigmanic
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
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cxfx's list
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katiefallwest's Words
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Naresh_Gre
The path meanders through the vineyards
meander, labyrinth, Sinuous, gyrate, caron, awry, credo, banter, juxtaposition, argot, inexorable, foibles and 223 more...
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heart of darkness
yawl, sea-reach, offing, barge, sprit, estuary, yarn, aft, mizzenmast, placid, gauzy, diaphanous and 141 more...
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ADW1
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
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My List
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Just Plain Weird.
Something about these words doesn't look or feel right. And yet... they're strangely appealing.
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roseandivy's list
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