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Droll
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Droll has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Droll, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 quaintly amusing.
2 strange; odd; surprising.
--n. archaic 1 a jester; an entertainer.
2 a quaintly amusing person.
--adj.
1 quaintly amusing.
2 strange; odd; surprising.
--n. archaic 1 a jester; an entertainer.
2 a quaintly amusing person.
Derivative
drollery n. (pl. -ies). drolly adv. drollness n.
Etymology
F dr{ocirc}le, perh. f. MDu. drolle little man
THESAURUS
Droll
Attic, absurd, amusing, biting, bizarre, brilliant, clever, comedian, comic, comical, eccentric, facetious, farcical, funny, funnyman, hilarious, humorous, humorsome, incongruous, jester, jesting, jocose, jocular, joker, jokester, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, laughable, ludicrous, mordant, nimble-witted, pointed, preposterous, priceless, pungent, quaint, quick-witted, quipster, quizzical, rapier-like, rich, ridiculous, risible, salt, salty, scintillating, screaming, sharp, smart, sparkling, sprightly, wag, whimsical, wit, wittyROGET THESAURUS
Droll
Ridiculousness
N ridiculousness, comicality, oddity, extravagance, drollery, farce, comedy, burlesque, buffoonery, frippery, doggerel verses, absurdity, bombast, anticlimax, bathos, eccentricity, monstrosity, laughingstock, ridiculous, ludicrous, comical, droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd, whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear, fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre, screaming, eccentric, strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird, awkward, extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic, drollish, seriocomic, tragicomic, gimcrack, contemptible, doggerel, ironical, risible, risum teneatis amici, rideret Heraclitus, du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.
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