quizzical

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: quiz=zi=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

quizzical, a. 

 Relating to quizzing; given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

quizzical, adj.
1 expressing or done with mild or amused perplexity.
2 strange; comical.

Derivative

quizzicality n. quizzically adv. quizzicalness n.

THESAURUS

quizzical

absurd, agape, agog, all agog, amusing, bantering, bizarre, booing, burning with curiosity, catcalling, catechistic, chaffing, consumed with curiosity, curious, derisive, derisory, disbelieving, droll, eccentric, fleering, flippant, fooling, funny, ghoulish, gossipy, grinning, hilarious, hissing, hooting, humorous, incongruous, inquiring, inquisitional, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, interrogational, interrogative, interrogatory, itchy, jeering, jollying, joshing, kidding, laughable, leering, ludicrous, mocking, morbid, morbidly curious, odd, open-eyed, openmouthed, overcurious, panning, priceless, probing, prurient, puzzled, quaint, queer, querying, questioning, quizzing, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, rich, ridiculing, ridiculous, risible, roasting, scoffing, scopophiliac, screaming, searching, skeptical, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, supercurious, taunting, teasing, twitting, unbelieving, voyeuristic, whimsical, witty

ROGET THESAURUS

quizzical

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.

Ridicule

N ridicule, derision, sardonic smile, sardonic grin, irrision, scoffing, mockery, quiz, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage, quizzing, asteism, squib, satire, skit, quip, quib, grin, parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie, farce, caricature, buffoonery, practical joke, horseplay, scorn, contempt, derisory, derisive, mock, mocking, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic, scurrilous, in ridicule.