Definitions for farce

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Spelling: [fahrs]
IPA: /fɑrs/

Farce is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in farce (acefr).

Definitions for farce

noun

  1. a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
  2. humor of the type displayed in such works.
  3. foolish show; mockery; a ridiculous sham.
  4. Cookery. forcemeat.

verb (used with object)

  1. to season (a speech or composition), especially with witty material.
  2. Obsolete. to stuff; cram.

Origin of farce

1300-50; (noun) Middle English fars stuffing Middle French farce Vulgar Latin *farsa, noun use of feminine of Latin farsus, earlier fartus stuffed, past participle of farcīre to stuff; (v.) M

Examples for farce

Burlesque, farce and extravagance of situation and dialogue.

We did not want the farce, that night, even as our rightful due.

His lower orders are all food for comedy or farce: he will not treat them seriously.

As The Sting Man shows, Abscam was becoming so outrageous that it was turning into an American farce.

Those remarks turned a political case into a farce that involved corruption and sexual trysts.

As Marx said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.

What a farce it was to talk to her about helping those poor fellows!

The world is a stage, and life is a farce, and he that laughs most has most profit of the performance.

I have said from day one that this round of peace negotiations is a farce and this week is proof that they absolutely are.

History repeats itself,” Marx famously wrote, “first as tragedy, second as farce.

Word Value for farce
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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