Dictionary Entry
burlesque
burlesque is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 24 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
- 2noun
Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
- 3noun
An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
- 4noun
A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
- 5transitive verb
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
- 6intransitive verb
To employ burlesque.
- 7noun
a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
- 8noun
a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)
- 9verb
make a parody of
"The students spoofed the teachers"
- 10adjective
relating to or characteristic of a burlesque
"burlesque theater"
Synonyms
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for BURLESQUE lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.