Synonyms of the word farce


FARCECOMEDY - DRESSING - FILL - FORCEMEAT - STUFF - STUFFING - TRAVESTY

farce

  • n. (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
  • n. (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
  • n. (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
  • n. (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.
  • v. To stuff with forcemeat.
  • v. (figuratively) To fill full; to stuff.
  • v. (obsolete) To make fat.
  • v. (obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.

comedy

  • n. (historical) A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece.
  • n. A light, amusing play with a happy ending.
  • n. (Medieval Europe) A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy).
  • n. (drama) A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone.
  • n. (drama) The genre of such works.
  • n. Entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.
  • n. The art of composing comedy.
  • n. A humorous event.

dressing

  • n. (medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
  • n. A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
  • n. Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
  • n. The activity of getting dressed.
  • n. (obsolete) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
  • n. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
  • n. Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
  • n. An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
  • n. (dated) Castigation; scolding; dressing down.
  • n. (dated) the process of extracting metals or other valuable components from minerals.
  • v. present participle of dress.

fill

  • v. (transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
  • v. (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
  • v. To enter (something), making it full.
  • v. (intransitive) To become full.
  • v. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something.
  • v. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
  • v. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
  • v. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
  • v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
  • n. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
  • n. An amount that fills a container.
  • n. The filling of a container or area.
  • n. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
  • n. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill…
  • n. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be…
  • n. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a…
  • n. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

forcemeat

  • n. (cooking) Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.

stuff

  • n. Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
  • n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
  • n. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
  • n. Abstract substance or character.
  • n. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
  • n. (slang, informal) Substitution for trivial details.
  • n. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
  • n. (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
  • n. (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
  • n. (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship…
  • n. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
  • v. (transitive) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
  • v. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
  • v. (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break.
  • v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
  • v. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing…
  • v. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
  • v. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense…
  • v. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or…
  • v. (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
  • v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, idiomatic) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
  • interj. (slang) A filler term used to dismiss explanation.

stuffing

  • v. present participle of stuff.
  • n. The matter used to stuff hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.
  • n. Any of many food items used to stuff another.
  • n. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
  • n. (Internet) The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search…
  • n. (US, finance, law) A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of…

travesty

  • n. An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation.
  • n. A parody or stylistic imitation.
  • n. (pejorative) A grossly inferior imitation.
  • v. (transitive) To make a travesty of; to parody.

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