| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A person whose words or actions provoke or are intended to provoke amusement or laughter: clown, comedian, comic, farceur, funnyman, humorist, jester, joker, jokester, quipster, wag2, wit. Informal : card. See LAUGHTER. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Arousing laughter: amusing, comic, comical, droll, funny, humorous, laughable, risible. See LAUGHTER. 2. So senseless as to be laughable: absurd, foolish, harebrained, idiotic, imbecilic, insane, lunatic, mad, moronic, nonsensical, preposterous, silly, softheaded, tomfool, unearthly. Informal : cockeyed, crazy, loony, loopy. Slang : balmy2, dippy, dopey, jerky, sappy, wacky. See ABILITY, KNOWLEDGE.
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