farcical
adjEtymology From farcy + -ical.
farcical
adj/ˈfɑː(ɹ)sɪkəl/
Etymology From farce + -ical, after comical etc.
1
Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.
- A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable.2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea's Bluff.”, in New York Times:
- In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text.2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:
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- An inquiry into lockdown parties in Downing Street, which could determine the fate of Boris Johnson, is expected to lay bare a “farcical” culture of drinking and impromptu socialising, with little oversight from senior officials, the Guardian understands.2022 January 13, Rajeev Syal et al., “No 10 party inquiry will reveal ‘farcical’ culture, say Whitehall sources”, in The Guardian:
- Derived terms
- farcicality, farcically, farcicalness, semifarcical, unfarcical
- Related terms
- farce, tragicofarcical