Farce

Quick meaning: Farce is a noun meaning (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.

Meaning

(uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
2. (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
3. (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.
4. (countable) An elaborate lie.
5. (cooking) Forcemeat, stuffing.
6. (transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
7. (transitive, figurative) To fill full; to stuff.

Example Sentences

The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.

The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.

The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.

The United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards."

Word Forms

• farces
• farcing
• farced

Synonyms for farce

Depending on context, synonyms include travesty, forcemeat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include travesty, forcemeat, satire, parody, joke, prank.

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