farsa — meaning in English
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English meaning
- farce noun A comic play or film built on absurd situations, mistaken identity, slamming doors and characters behaving with wild improbability, written purely to get laughs rather than to say anything serious.
- masquerade noun A party or ball where guests wear masks and costumes.
- mock verb To make fun of someone, often by imitating them; to ridicule.
- travesty noun A shocking, absurd distortion of something that should be fair or serious — a mockery of what it claims to represent.
Senses
farsa is used for these senses in English:
- masquerade (figuratively) An act of living under false pretenses; a concealment of something by a false or unreal show; a disguise, a pretence; also, a pretentious display.
- mock An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
- travesty An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation.
farce — full definition
- noun A comic play or film built on absurd situations, mistaken identity, slamming doors and characters behaving with wild improbability, written purely to get laughs rather than to say anything serious.
- noun A situation or process so badly handled or so obviously rigged that it cannot be taken seriously.
- noun In cookery, a seasoned stuffing of minced meat, herbs or breadcrumbs used to fill poultry, fish or vegetables.
masquerade — full definition
- noun A party or ball where guests wear masks and costumes.
- noun A false show or pretence that conceals the truth.
- verb To pretend to be someone or something one is not.