Nouns (2)
slapstick
n. acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone
slapstick
n. a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes
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Adjectives (2)
knockabout, boisterous
adj. characterized by horseplay and physical action; "slapstick style of humor"
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Synonyms (38)
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
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slapstick
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