Dictionary Entry
droll
droll is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.
- 2noun
One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.
- 3noun
Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.
- 4intransitive verb
To jest; to play the buffoon.
- 5transitive verb
To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.
- 6transitive verb
To make a jest of; to set in a comical light.
- 7adjective
comical in an odd or whimsical manner
"a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor"
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