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Droll

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Adjective

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.

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, witty

ROGET 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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