Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
621. toy, plaything, bauble; doll &c. (puppet ) 554; teetotum[obs3];
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knickknack &c. (trifle) 643; magic lantern &c. (show) 448; peep show,
puppet show, raree show, gallanty show[obs3]; toy shop; "quips and
cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles" [Milton].
entertainer, showman, showgirl; dancer, tap dancer, song-and-dance man;
vaudeville act; singer; musician &c. 416. sportsman, gamester,
reveler; master of ceremonies, master of revels; pompom girl[obs3];
arbiter elegantiarum[Lat]; arbiter bibendi[Lat], archer, fan [U.S.],
toxophilite[obs3], turfman[obs3]. V. amuse, entertain, divert, enliven;
tickle the fancy; titillate, raise a smile, put in good humor; cause
laughter, create laughter, occasion laughter, raise laughter, excite
laughter, produce laughter, convulse with laughter; set the table in a
roar, be the death of one. recreate, solace, cheer, rejoice; please &c.
829; interest; treat, regale. amuse oneself, game; play a game, play
pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast,
carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic,
gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance &c. (leap) 309; keep up the ball; run
a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure;
paint the town red*; see life; desipere in loco[Lat], play the fool.
make holiday, keep holiday; go a Maying. while away the time, beguile
the time; kill time, dally. smile, simper, smirk; grin, grin like a
Cheshire cat; mock, laugh in one's sleeve; laugh, laugh outright;
giggle, titter, snigger, crow, snicker, chuckle, cackle; burst out,
burst into a fit of laughter; shout, split, roar. shake one's sides,
split one's sides, hold both one's sides; roar with laughter, die with
laughter. Adj. amusing, entertaining, diverting &c. v.; recreational,
recreative, lusory[obs3]; pleasant &c. (pleasing) 829; laughable &c.
(ludicrous) 853; witty &c. 842; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly,
jocund, roguish, rompish[obs3]; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive,
ludibrious|. funny; very funny, hilarious, uproarious, side-splitting.
amused &c. v.; "pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw" [Pope];
laughing &c. v.; risible; ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die
with laughter; convulsed with laughter, rolling in the aisles. Adv. "on
the light fantastic toe" [Milton], at play, in sport. Int. vive la
bagatelle[Fr]! vogue la galere[Fr]! Phr. deus nobis haec otia
fecit[Lat]; dum vivimus vivamus[Lat]; dulce est desipere in loco
[Lat][Horace]; "(every room) hath blazed with lights and brayed with
minstrelsy" [Timon of Athens]; misce stullitiam consiliis brevem
[Lat][Horace].
#841. Weariness.窶年. weariness, defatigation|; lassitude &c.
(fatigue) 688; drowsiness &c. 683. disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness;
satiety &c. 869; taedium vitae &c. (dejection) 837; boredom, ennui.
wearisomeness, tediousness &c. adj.; dull work, tedium, monotony,
twice-told tale. bore, buttonholer, proser[obs3], wet blanket; pill*,
stiff*; heavy hours, "the enemy" [time]. V. weary; tire &c. (fatigue)
688; bore; bore to death, weary to death, tire to death, bore out of
one's skull, bore out of one's life, weary out of one's life, tire out
of one's life, bore out of all patience, weary out of all patience,
wear out one's patience, tire out of all patience; set to sleep, send
to sleep; buttonhole. pall, sicken, nauseate, disgust. harp on the same
string; drag its slow length along, drag its weary length along. never
hear the last of; be tired of, be sick of, be tired with &c. adj.;
yawn; die with ennui. [of journalistic articles] MEGO, my eyes glaze
over. Adj. wearying &c. v.; wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome;
uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull,
arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific,
somniferous. disgusting &c. v.; unenjoyed[obs3]. weary, tired &c. v.;
drowsy &c. (sleepy) 683; uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out,
blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of. Adv. wearily &c. adj.; usque
ad nauseam[Lat]. Phr. time hanging heavily on one's hands; toujours
perdrix[Fr]; crambe repetita[Lat][obs3].
#842. Wit.窶年. wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit,
attic salt; atticism[obs3]; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery,
pleasantry. farce, buffoonery, fooling, tomfoolery; shenanigan [U.S.],
harlequinade &c. 599[obs3]; broad farce, broad humor; fun,
espieglerie[Fr]; vis comica[Lat]. jocularity; jocosity,
jocoseness[obs3]; facetiousness; waggery, waggishness; whimsicality;
comicality &c. 853. banter, badinage, retort, repartee, smartness,
ready wit, quid-pro- quo; ridicule &c. 856. jest, joke, jape, jibe;
facetiae[Lat], levity, quips and cranks; capital joke; canorae
nugae[Lat]; standing jest, standing joke, private joke, conceit, quip,
quirk, crank, quiddity, concetto[obs3], plaisanterie[Fr], brilliant
idea; merry thought, bright thought, happy thought; sally; flash of
wit, flash of merriment; scintillation; mot[Fr], mot pour rire
[French]; witticism, smart saying, bon-mot,jeu d'esprit[Fr],epigram;
jest book; dry joke, quodlibet, cream of the jest. word-play, jeu de
mots[Fr]; play of words, play upon words; pun, punning; double entente,
double entendre &c. (ambiguity) 520[Fr]; quibble, verbal quibble;
conundrum &c. (riddle) 533; anagram, acrostic, double acrostic,
trifling, idle conceit, turlupinade|. old joke, tired joke, flat joke,
Joe Miller|!. V. joke, jest, crack a joke, make a joke, jape, cut
jokes; perpetrate a joke; pun, perpetrate a pun; make fun of, make
merry with; kid, kid around, fool around; set the table in a roar &c.
(amuse) 840. retort; banter &c. (ridicule) 856; ridentem dicere
verum[Lat]; joke at one's expense. take in jest. [make a joke which is
not funny] bomb, fall flat; go over like a lead balloon. Adj. witty,
attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose, humorous;
facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish; playful &c.
840; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, light, spirituel[obs3],
sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point, ben trovato[It]; comic &c. 853.
zany, madcap. funny, amusing &c. (amusement) 840. Adv. jokingly, in
joke, in jest, in sport, in play. Phr. adhibenda est in jocando
moderatio[Lat][obs3]; "gentle dullness ever loves a joke" [Pope];
"leave this keen encounter of our wits" [Richard III]; just joking,
just kidding; "surely you jest!".
#843. Dullness.窶年. dullness, heaviness, flatness; infestivity
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[obs3] &c. 837, stupidity &c. 499; want of originality; dearth of
ideas.
prose, matter of fact; heavy book, conte a dormir debout[Fr];
platitude.
V. be dull &c. adj.; prose, take au serieux[Fr], be caught
napping.
render dull &c. adj.; damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a
wet
blanket on; fall flat upon the ear.
no joke, serious matter (importance) 642.
Adj. dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting,
flat,
dry as dust; unfunny, unlively[obs3], logy [U.S.]; unimaginative;
insulse[obs3]; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact,
commonplace, pedestrian, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable"
[Hamlet].
stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous;
melancholic
&c. 837; stolid &c. 499; plodding.
boring, tiresome, tedious &c. 841.
Phr. davus sum non Aedipus[obs3]; deadly dull and boring,
DDB[abbr].
#844. Humorist.窶年. humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist[obs3],
epigrammatist, punster; bel esprit, life of the party; wit-snapper,
wit- cracker, wit-worm; joker, jester, Joe Miller|!, drole de
corps[obs3], gaillard[obs3], spark; bon diable[Fr]; practical joker.
buffoon, farceur[French], merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat,
mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster[obs3], harlequin, punch,
pulcinella[obs3], scaramouch[obs3], clown; wearer of the cap and bells,
wearer of the motley; motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack
in the green, jack a dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass [coll.]; fool
&c. 501. zany, madcap; pickle-herring, witling[obs3], caricaturist,
grimacier[obs3]; persifleur[obs3].
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