...a farcical nine months' jail sentence imposed yesterday on a killer.
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Farcical — Far ci*cal, a. Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal. [1913 Webster] They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are ??tually in in nature. Gay. {Far ci*cal*ly}, adv. {Far ci*cal*ness}, n. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Farcical — Far ci*cal, a. Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See {Farcy}, n. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
farcical — index ludicrous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
farcical — 1716, from FARCE (Cf. farce) + ICAL (Cf. ical). Related: Farcically … Etymology dictionary
farcical — comical, comic, ludicrous, iaughable, ridiculous, risible, droll, funny … New Dictionary of Synonyms
farcical — [adj] absurd amusing, camp, campy*, comic, comical, derisory, diverting, droll, for grins*, funny, gelastic, joshing, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, outrageous, preposterous, ridiculous, risible, slapstick, stupid; concepts 267,542 Ant. real … New thesaurus
farcical — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ resembling farce; absurd or ridiculous. DERIVATIVES farcically adverb … English terms dictionary
farcical — [fär′si kəl] adj. of, or having the nature of, a farce; absurd, ridiculous, etc. SYN. FUNNY farcicality [fär′sikal′ə tē] n. pl. farcicalities farcically adv … English World dictionary
farcical — far|ci|cal [ˈfa:sıkəl US ˈfa:r ] adj 1.) a situation or event that is farcical is very silly and badly organized ▪ Opposition leaders described the government s plans as farcical . 2.) a farcical play or film is a humorous one in which the… … Dictionary of contemporary English
farcical — adjective 1) the idea is farcical Syn: ridiculous, preposterous, ludicrous, absurd, laughable, risible, nonsensical; senseless, pointless, useless; silly, foolish, idiotic, stupid, harebrained, cockamamie; informal crazy … Thesaurus of popular words
