Related Words:
- travesty
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- Atticism,
- aggrandize,
- aggrandizement,
- agile wit,
- amplification,
- amplify,
- anamorphosis,
- ape,
- bad likeness,
- ballyhoo,
- belie,
- big talk,
- black humor,
- blowing up,
- botch,
- build up,
- burlesque,
- camouflage,
- caricature,
- carry too far,
- color,
- comedy,
- copy,
- daub,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- disguise,
- distort,
- distortion,
- draw the longbow,
- dry wit,
- dummy,
- duplication,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- esprit,
- exaggerate,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- facsimile,
- falsify,
- farce,
- garble,
- go to extremes,
- grandiloquence,
- heightening,
- hit off on,
- huckstering,
- humor,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- hyperbolize,
- imitate,
- imitation,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- irony,
- knockoff,
- lampoon,
- lay it on,
- magnification,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- mimicry,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- mock,
- mock-up,
- mockery,
- model,
- nimble wit,
- overcharge,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overemphasis,
- overestimate,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overpraise,
- overreach,
- overreact,
- oversell,
- overspeak,
- overstate,
- overstatement,
- overstress,
- paraphrase,
- parody,
- pastiche,
- pervert,
- pile it on,
- pleasantry,
- pretty wit,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- replica,
- representation,
- reproduction,
- ridicule,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satirize,
- savor of wit,
- scratch,
- scribble,
- sensationalism,
- sham,
- slant,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- squib,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- stretching,
- subtle wit,
- superlative,
- take off,
- take off on,
- takeoff,
- talk big,
- talk in superlatives,
- tall talk,
- tout,
- touting,
- twist,
- understate,
- version,
- visual humor,
- warp,
- wicked imitation,
- wit,
- wrench
- farce
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- a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
- fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?" related words >
- Atticism,
- Thalia,
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- agile wit,
- arlequinade,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bit,
- black comedy,
- black humor,
- brass farthing,
- broad comedy,
- burlesque,
- burletta,
- button,
- camp,
- caricature,
- cent,
- comedie bouffe,
- comedie larmoyante,
- comedie rosse,
- comedietta,
- comedy,
- comedy ballet,
- comedy of humors,
- comedy of ideas,
- comedy of intrigue,
- comedy of manners,
- comedy of situation,
- comedy relief,
- comic muse,
- comic opera,
- comic relief,
- curio,
- dark comedy,
- domestic comedy,
- dressing,
- dry wit,
- esprit,
- exode,
- farce comedy,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fig,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- forcemeat,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- gaud,
- genteel comedy,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- hair,
- halfpenny,
- harlequinade,
- high camp,
- hill of beans,
- humor,
- imitation,
- irony,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- lampoon,
- light comedy,
- low camp,
- low comedy,
- mime,
- minikin,
- mock,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- musical,
- musical comedy,
- nimble wit,
- opera buffa,
- parody,
- pastiche,
- peppercorn,
- picayune,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pleasantry,
- pretty wit,
- quick wit,
- rap,
- raw comedy,
- ready wit,
- realistic comedy,
- red cent,
- romantic comedy,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satyr play,
- savor of wit,
- sentimental comedy,
- sham,
- shit,
- situation comedy,
- slapstick,
- slapstick comedy,
- slapstick humor,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- squib,
- straw,
- stuffing,
- subtle wit,
- takeoff,
- toy,
- tragicomedy,
- travesty,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- visual humor,
- whim-wham,
- wicked imitation,
- wit
- caricature
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- a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
- represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President" related words >
- Atticism,
- aggrandize,
- aggrandizement,
- agile wit,
- amplification,
- amplify,
- anamorphosis,
- animated cartoon,
- bad likeness,
- ballyhoo,
- belie,
- big talk,
- black humor,
- blowing up,
- bosh,
- botch,
- build up,
- bunk,
- burlesque,
- camouflage,
- carry too far,
- cartoon,
- cheat,
- clinquant,
- color,
- comedy,
- comic book,
- comic strip,
- comics,
- daub,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- disguise,
- distort,
- distortion,
- draw the longbow,
- dry wit,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- esprit,
- exaggerate,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- fake,
- falsify,
- farce,
- funnies,
- gammon,
- garble,
- go to extremes,
- grandiloquence,
- heightening,
- hit off on,
- hokum,
- huckstering,
- humor,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- hyperbolize,
- imitation,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- irony,
- lampoon,
- laughingstock,
- lay it on,
- libel,
- magnification,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- mock,
- mockery,
- moonshine,
- nimble wit,
- overcharge,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overemphasis,
- overestimate,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overpraise,
- overreach,
- overreact,
- oversell,
- overspeak,
- overstate,
- overstatement,
- overstress,
- parody,
- pasquinade,
- pastiche,
- pervert,
- phony,
- pile it on,
- pinchbeck,
- pleasantry,
- pretty wit,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- ridicule,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satirize,
- savor of wit,
- scratch,
- scribble,
- send up,
- sensationalism,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- slant,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- spoof,
- squib,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- stretching,
- subtle wit,
- superlative,
- take off,
- take off on,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- talk big,
- talk in superlatives,
- tall talk,
- tinsel,
- tout,
- touting,
- travesty,
- twist,
- understate,
- visual humor,
- warp,
- wicked imitation,
- wit,
- wrench
- metaphor
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- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity related words >
- accordance,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogue,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- change,
- changeling,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copy,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- double,
- dummy,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- exclamation,
- fake,
- figure of speech,
- fill-in,
- gemination,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- image,
- imagery,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- proxy,
- reference,
- regression,
- relation,
- relief,
- repetition,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- spoonerism,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- syllepsis,
- symbol,
- symbolism,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- trope,
- trope of comparison,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- sensationalism
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- the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation"
- subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes related words >
- Barnumism,
- Thespian art,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amateur theatricals,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- blood and thunder,
- blowing up,
- brazenness,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- colorfulness,
- convolution,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- demonstrativeness,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- extreme,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- huckstering,
- human interest,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- loudness,
- love interest,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- making scenes,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- nonrationalness,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- panache,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- play construction,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sententiousness,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- sportiness,
- staginess,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unreasoningness,
- visceralness,
- vulgarness,
- yellow journalism
- Atticism,
- English sonnet,
- Goliardic verse,
- Horatian ode,
- Hudibrastic verse,
- Italian sonnet,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- Rabelaisian,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- agile wit,
- alba,
- amoebean verse,
- anacreontic,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- banter,
- black humor,
- bucolic,
- burlesque,
- canso,
- caricature,
- cartoon,
- causticity,
- chaffing,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- comedy,
- concrete poetry,
- cubist poetry,
- cynicism,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- dramatic poetry,
- dry wit,
- eclogue,
- elegiac poetry,
- elegy,
- epic,
- epic poetry,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- erotic poetry,
- esprit,
- exaggeration,
- farce,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- hatchet job,
- heroic poetry,
- humor,
- idyll,
- imagist verse,
- imitation,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- irony,
- jingle,
- lampoon,
- light verse,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- malicious parody,
- melic poetry,
- metaphysical poetry,
- mock-heroic poetry,
- mockery,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- narrative poetry,
- nimble wit,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- oral poetry,
- palinode,
- parody,
- pasquil,
- pasquin,
- pasquinade,
- pastiche,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- persiflage,
- pleasantry,
- poem,
- poison pen,
- polyphonic prose,
- pretty wit,
- prose poetry,
- prothalamium,
- quick wit,
- raillery,
- ready wit,
- rhyme,
- ridicule,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- runic verse,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satiric wit,
- satirical poetry,
- savor of wit,
- sestina,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- spoof,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- squib,
- stichomythia,
- subtle wit,
- symbolist verse,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- travesty,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- vers de societe,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- visual humor,
- wicked imitation,
- wit
- conjugation
collapse
- a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
- the complete set of inflected forms of a verb
- the inflection of verbs related words >
- Anschluss,
- IC analysis,
- Janus,
- abutment,
- abuttal,
- accidence,
- addition,
- adjacency,
- adjoiningness,
- affiliation,
- affix,
- affixation,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- allomorph,
- amalgamation,
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- apposition,
- appulse,
- articulation,
- artificial insemination,
- assimilation,
- association,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- blend,
- blending,
- bond,
- bound morpheme,
- bracketing,
- cabal,
- cartel,
- centralization,
- clustering,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- communication,
- composition,
- concatenation,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confluence,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjunction,
- connection,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- conterminousness,
- contiguity,
- convergence,
- copulation,
- coterminousness,
- coupling,
- cross-fertilization,
- cross-pollination,
- cutting,
- declension,
- derivation,
- dichotomy,
- difference of form,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- ecumenism,
- embodiment,
- enclitic,
- encompassment,
- enosis,
- equivocality,
- fecundation,
- federalization,
- federation,
- fertilization,
- formative,
- free form,
- fusion,
- gathering,
- getting with child,
- halving,
- heterogamy,
- hookup,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- impregnation,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- insemination,
- integration,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- interlinking,
- irony,
- isogamy,
- joinder,
- joining,
- jointure,
- junction,
- junta,
- juxtaposition,
- knotting,
- league,
- liaison,
- linkage,
- linking,
- marriage,
- meeting,
- meld,
- melding,
- merger,
- merging,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- orthogamy,
- package,
- package deal,
- pairing,
- paradigm,
- perigee,
- perihelion,
- polarity,
- pollination,
- pollinization,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- proclitic,
- radical,
- root,
- solidification,
- splice,
- stem,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- symbiosis,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- syzygy,
- theme,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- unification,
- union,
- wedding,
- word-formation,
- yoking,
- zygosis
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