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.
Definitions
- adjective. 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.
- noun. Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
- noun. An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
- noun. A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
- transitive verb. To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
- intransitive verb. To employ burlesque.
- noun. a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
- noun. a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)
- verb. make a parody of
"The students spoofed the teachers"
- adjective. relating to or characteristic of a burlesque
"burlesque theater"
Synonyms
charade, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty
Common word forms
burlesqued, burlesquer, burlesques, burlesquely, burlesquing
Words from these letters
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