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  • 1. farce
  • Rhymes with Farce
  • Farce in a sentence
  • Quotes about Farce
  • 2. farce
  • 3. farce
Table of Contents
  • 1. farce
  • Rhymes with Farce
  • Farce in a sentence
  • Quotes about Farce
  • 2. farce
  • 3. farce
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology

1. farce

noun. ['ˈfɑːrs'] a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.

Synonyms

  • farce comedy
  • comedy

Antonyms

  • insulator
  • conductor
  • unclog

Etymology

  • farcen (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • farsir (Old French (842-ca. 1400))

Rhymes with Farce

  • sparse
  • parse
  • marse
  • carse

Sentences with farce


1. Noun, singular or mass
At the same time, the plays begin to include a more lighthearted treatment and elements of popular farce.

Quotes about farce


1. A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
- John Ratzenberger

2. Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
- Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

3. The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg

2. farce

noun. ['ˈfɑːrs'] mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs.

Synonyms

  • dressing
  • forcemeat

Antonyms

  • pull
  • unclutter
  • break

Etymology

  • farcen (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • farsir (Old French (842-ca. 1400))

3. farce

verb. ['ˈfɑːrs'] fill with a stuffing while cooking.

Synonyms

  • fill
  • make full
  • fill up

Antonyms

  • abstain
  • fire
  • unseal
  • eviscerate

Etymology

  • farcen (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • farsir (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
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