Nouns (1)
knockabout
n. a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (4)
casual, everyday
adj. suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"
slapstick, boisterous
adj. characterized by horseplay and physical action; "slapstick style of humor"
Fuzzynyms (12)
commonplace, trivial, banal
adj. obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
pedestrian, prosaic, prosy
adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
vernacular, common, vulgar, nonliterary
adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
matter-of-fact, prosaic
adj. not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
Synonyms (44)
familiar, unstudied
adj. "lectured in a familiar style"
folksy
adj. very informal and familiar; "a folksy radio commentator"; "a folksy style"
casual, free-and-easy
adj. natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style"
unceremonious
adj. without ceremony or formality; "an unceremonious speech"
bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek, witty
adj. cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice"
zany, buffoonish, clownish
adj. like a clown; "a buffoonish walk"; "a clownish face"; "a zany sense 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
Antonyms (1)
formal
adj. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education"
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