Word.ws English Dictionary

Word of the Day:

farcical

adjective/ˈfɑː(ɹ)sɪkəl/

What It Means

Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.

See the entry

Farcical in Context

“In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text.”

— 2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist

More example sentences

Did You Know?

From farce + -ical, after comical etc.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: farcical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.

Cite this entry: “farcical.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/farcical. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Latest Words of the Day

More from Word of the Day