farce

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
2. (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
3. (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
4. (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.
5. (countable) An elaborate lie.
6. (countable, uncountable) Forcemeat, stuffing.

Verb

1. (transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To fill full; to stuff.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To make fat.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To swell out; to render pompous.
5. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”).

Synonyms

burlesque

comedy

low comedy

satire

stuff

farce comedy

travesty

slapstick

forcemeat

jest

mockery

extravaganza

drollery

fill

fill in

fill out

fill up

flood

fulfil

fulfill

imbue

impregnate

inflate

infuse

line

litter

live up to

loaf

make out

man

👨

meet

mimicry

occupy

pack

pantomime

parody

prime

ridiculous

riotous

satisfy

season

show

spoof

story

stuffing

top off

absurdity

wad

waggery

force-meat

Translations

farsa

farce

Farce

farsa

Posse

farsa

farsa

commedia

buffonata

tiro

farce

φάρσα

κωμωδία

klucht

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɑːs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: farcen

In summary

Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sense, via Middle English fars, farsse), from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle of Latin farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. Doublet of farse.

Sentences

We cannot forget that farce .