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FARCICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does farcical mean?
• FARCICAL (adjective)
The adjective FARCICAL has 1 sense:
1. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
Familiarity information: FARCICAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
Synonyms:
farcical; ludicrous; ridiculous
Context example:
ludicrous green hair
Similar:
humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)
Derivation:
farce (a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations)
Context examples
This is a farcical waste of time, but still, if nothing else will satisfy you, it shall be done.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Am I such a farcical bungler, Watson, that I should erect an obvious dummy, and expect that some of the sharpest men in Europe would be deceived by it?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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