Synonyms of the word clown


CLOWNANTIC - BUFFOON - COMEDIAN - COMIC - FOOL - JEST - JOKE - MUGGINS - SAP - SAPHEAD - TOMFOOL

clown

  • n. A performance artist often associated with a circus and typically characterised by bright, oversized clothing,…
  • n. A person who acts in a silly fashion.
  • n. (Britain) A stupid person.
  • n. (obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
  • n. (obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
  • v. (intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.

antic

  • adj. (architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
  • adj. Grotesque, bizarre; absurd.
  • adj. Obsolete form of antique.
  • n. (architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
  • n. A caricature.
  • n. (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
  • n. A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform antics, caper.
  • v. (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
  • n. (animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before…

buffoon

  • n. One who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion; a clown or fool.
  • n. (pejorative) An unintentionally ridiculous person.
  • v. To behave like a buffoon.

comedian

  • n. An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.
  • n. (by extension) Any person who is characteristically humorous or amusing.
  • n. A writer of comedy.

comic

  • adj. Funny; amusing; comical.
  • adj. Relating to comedy.
  • n. A comedian.
  • n. A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
  • n. (Britain) A children's newspaper.

fool

  • n. (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
  • n. (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
  • n. (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
  • n. (slang) Buddy, dude, person.
  • n. (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
  • n. (often capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck.
  • v. To trick; to make a fool of someone.
  • v. To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

jest

  • n. (archaic) An act performed for amusement; a joke.
  • n. (archaic) Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
  • n. (obsolete) A deed; an action; a gest.
  • n. (obsolete) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
  • v. To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
  • adv. (African American Vernacular, Southern US) Alternative spelling of just.

joke

  • n. An amusing story.
  • n. Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.
  • n. (figuratively) The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one.
  • n. (figuratively) A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.
  • v. (intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.

muggins

  • n. A fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself).
  • n. (cribbage) The act of stealing another player's points because they either mis-pegged or counted up incorrectly.
  • n. A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of…
  • n. A card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's…

sap

  • n. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating…
  • n. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  • n. (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
  • n. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
  • n. (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of…
  • v. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  • v. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
  • v. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • v. (transitive) To gradually weaken.
  • v. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

saphead

  • n. A simpleton, a stupid person.

tomfool

  • adj. silly or stupid.
  • n. a silly or stupid person.

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