DROLL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does droll mean? 

• DROLL (adjective)
  The adjective DROLL has 1 sense:

1. comical in an odd or whimsical manner

  Familiarity information: DROLL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROLL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Comical in an odd or whimsical manner

Context example:

a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor

Similar:

humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)

 Context examples 

For the old lady was in the middle of her story, and long before it was done, Jo was off again, making more droll revelations and committing still more fearful blunders.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A wicked rascal, Ned, but droll!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"It would be something remarkable, now," he continued, "something droll, if Fanny should have a brother and I a sister settling at the same time. And yet it is not very unlikely."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Then thought he to himself, “It will be a very droll thing to bring away such a fine bird in this shabby cage”; so he opened the door and took hold of it and put it into the golden cage.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There was not a single point in which we differed; I would not have had you by for the world; you are such a sly thing, I am sure you would have made some droll remark or other about it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Sight-seeing from morning till night, stopping for nice lunches in the gay cafes, and meeting with all sorts of droll adventures.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Mr. Palmer is so droll!" said she, in a whisper, to Elinor.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I really couldn't help it, and it all came about in such a droll way that I must tell you.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There now; you see how droll he is.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Very precious to Jo was the friendship of the lads, their penitent sniffs and whispers after wrongdoing, their droll or touching little confidences, their pleasant enthusiasms, hopes, and plans, even their misfortunes, for they only endeared them to her all the more.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)