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Nouns (11)

n. a witty amusing person who makes jokes

humor, humour, witticism, wittiness

n. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

brain, brainpower, mentality, mental capacity, learning ability

n. mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"

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comic, comedian, comedienne

n. a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts

trickster, prankster, hoaxer, practical joker

n. someone who plays practical jokes on others

wiseacre, wisenheimer, weisenheimer, wise guy, smart aleck

n. an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments

n. a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

mime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist

n. an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression

zany

n. a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect

joker, jokester

n. a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes

monkey, imp, scamp, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag

n. one who is playfully mischievous

crack, sally, wisecrack, quip

n. witty remark

takeoff, parody, mockery, charade, lampoon, spoof, sendup, burlesque, travesty, pasquinade

n. a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way

n. an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; "the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly"

sense, connotation, intension

n. what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression

insightfulness, acumen

n. shrewdness shown by keen insight

wisdom, sapience

n. ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

n. an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation; "he lost consciousness"

judgment, judgement, sagacity, sagaciousness, discernment

n. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

perception, percept, perceptual experience

n. the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept

intellect, reason, understanding

n. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"

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