Vocabulary
Farcical
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
relating to or resembling farce, especially because of absurd or ridiculous aspects.
Urdu meaning
بدتر کرنا شدید تر کرنا بھڑکانا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The state`s plans of transforming Gwadar into a regional shipping and logistics hub sound farcical if its people do not have water and power.
- The images that circulated last week of an entire family being stranded for hours in Swat waiting for a rescue operation that never came were both tragic and farcical.
- This farcical assumption suggests that Pakistan has the power to control the decisionmaking process of independent international institutions.
- The project, infamously associated with a former chief justice`s farcical public funding appeals, is a debt-fuelled behemoth which will cost more than $30 billion and cause untold harm to the environmental landscape of GB and upper KP.
- A farcical display of manipulation and arm-twisting within parliament resulted in a constitutional amendment that has dealt a severe blow to the judiciary.
Synonyms
ridiculous, preposterous, ludicrous, absurd, laughable, risible, nonsensical, futile, senseless
Antonyms
grave, serious, solemn, dismal
Curator example
“he considered the whole idea farcical”
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