farce comedy
- noun
- /fɑrs ˈkɒmədi/
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comedia de enredo
- That movie is a good example of a modern farce comedy, filled with mistaken identities and physical gags.
Examples
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The theater group performed a hilarious farce comedy that had the audience in stitches.
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She enjoys watching classic farce comedies with slapstick humor and outrageous plots.
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What a hilarious farce comedy!
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I love farce comedies!
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She enjoys watching classic farce comedies with slapstick humor and outrageous plots.
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That movie is a good example of a modern farce comedy, filled with mistaken identities and physical gags.
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The theater group performed a hilarious farce comedy that had the audience in stitches.
Synonyms
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1.0
A funny event or series of events that makes people laugh
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5.3
A funny play with exaggerated, impossible situations and silly acting
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5.8
A series of mistakes that cause funny, confusing problems
Antonyms
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'farce' specifies the subtype (improbable, satirical situations) and 'comedy' names the genre, so the phrase denotes a comedy of the farce type. This noun–noun combination follows straightforward English compounding and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Farce comedy comes from the old French word farce, which meant 'to stuff', because small funny scenes were often 'stuffed' into serious plays to make people laugh. So today, farce comedy means a play or film that is packed with wild, silly, and impossible events.