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Adjectives (6)
zany, buffoonish
adj. like a clown; "a buffoonish walk"; "a clownish face"; "a zany sense of humor"
boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish
adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
Fuzzynyms (29)
rummy, rum, singular, queer, strange, curious, funny, peculiar
adj. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
uncivilized
adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
wild, savage, barbarian, barbaric
adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
philistine, anti-intellectual
adj. smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values
fell, savage, vicious, barbarous, roughshod, brutal, cruel
adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
clumsy, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy
adj. lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
undignified
adj. lacking dignity
tasteless, in poor taste
adj. lacking aesthetic or social taste
Synonyms (58)
bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek, witty
adj. cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice"
knockabout, slapstick, boisterous
adj. characterized by horseplay and physical action; "slapstick style of humor"
comic, funny, comical, laughable, risible
adj. arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"
droll, waggish
adj. amusing in an odd or whimsical manner; deliberately waggish
dry, ironic, ironical, pawky, wry
adj. humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"
ridiculous, farcical, ludicrous
adj. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"
Gilbertian
adj. wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; "a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings"- T.C.Worsley
hilarious, uproarious
adj. marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories"
killing, sidesplitting
adj. very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics"
jesting, jocose, jocular, jocund, joking
adj. characterized by jokes and good humor
mirthful, merry
adj. arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"
seriocomic, seriocomical
adj. having a mixture of serious with the comic with comic predominating; "a seriocomic novel"
tragicomic, tragicomical
adj. having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"--Joseph Conrad
artless, uncultivated, uncultured
adj. (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
common, crude, vulgar, coarse
adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
crass
adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
rude, underbred, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, uncouth
adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
low
adj. unrefined in character; "low comedy"
rough
adj. (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
rough-spoken
adj. rude or uncouth in speech
ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike
adj. not befitting a gentleman
unladylike
adj. lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady
Antonyms (1)
polished
adj. perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"
clownish
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