farcical

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

F'ARCICAL, adjective 1. Belonging to a farce; appropriated to farce. They deny the characters to be farcical because they are actually in nature. 2. Droll; ludicrous; ridiculous. 3. Illusory; deceptive.
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