Definition of farce in English:

farce

noun fɑːsfɑrs

1A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
闹剧，笑剧，滑稽戏
he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces
Example sentencesExamples
- On stage he has played character roles in farces, pantomime, comedies and serious drama.
- Now, of course, this movie is an absurdist farce, the actor is a clown, and the scene is a joke.
- His own farces and burlesques have faded into obscurity, but this contributor to the ‘gaiety of nations' lies buried in Westminster abbey.
- Social dramas, folk farces, and satires also premiered during the nineteenth century.
- His writings, which include more than thirty-five comedies, farces, adaptations, comic operas, and other light-hearted stage entertainments, were collected in 1798.
- The first production combines two one-act farces, which are to be performed at outdoor venues throughout the summer.
- It adds to the farce when they cannot quite make their costume changes fast enough.
- For a farce to be effective, it has to caricature some known human foibles.
- The rest of her theatrical career was mainly spent as the lead in plays and farces, some of which were enormously successful.
- Meanwhile, the story keeps unraveling like a farce staged at Indianapolis' Hilbert Circle Theater.
- It is a comic farce set in a house of many perversions.
- Even the natural born cynic will be won over by this board/bedroom farce.
- In the course of the evening, you get a thriller, a comedy, a drama, and a farce, which, together, add up to a feast of first-class theatre.
- Because they traffic in exaggeration, all farces are a bit disorienting - not as forbidding as a foreign language, more like a different dialect.
- It is not a slapstick farce, it is a comedy of character and relies on the audience observing the detailed interplay between the singers.
- Sandwiched in between are three foot-stomping farces that make you wish you didn't consume any liquids before the show.
- Modern farces are few and far between, that alone makes this one welcome.
- It starts off as a slapstick farce, then tries to provide some commentary on the notion of marriage in this day and age before settling into portraying clichés.
- His early works included songs, piano sonatas, and choral pieces, but from 1826 to 1833 he wrote music for burlesques, farces, and melodramas.
- Appearances belie reality and as the madness gains momentum, hilarity ensues in this classic comic farce of mistaken identities.
Synonyms
slapstick comedy, broad comedy, slapstick, burlesque, vaudeville, travesty, buffoonery
skit, squib
rare pasquinade
1. 1.1mass noun The dramatic genre represented by farces.
  the choreographed confusion of real farce
  Example sentencesExamples
  It allowed us to play on the elements of tragedy, drama, comedy, farce, and it allowed us to explore many, many levels.
  His direction is tight, keeping a brisk pace and gaining the most out of broad farce and high drama.
  Only light comedy survived as a distinct genre akin to farce.
  It defies any genre classification, because it can go from insanely heavy drama to light farce in a heartbeat.
  Whether melodrama, farce, or even tragedy, it holds the attention.
  His farce is built on a familiar idea: that of the well-meaning guest who spreads disruptive chaos.
  There are elements of farce in this drama which makes it all the sadder.
  The tone could change effortlessly and sensitively from farce to tragedy in the space of an episode.
  The series has always been a show about real life repeated as farce.
  Sometimes the tone shifts too awkwardly from drama to farce - or there is not enough space between the subtle and the broad.
  It toys with high-spirited farce but also vigorously satirises the way marriage is viewed entirely as monetary arrangement.
  It is as much social satire as fairy story, as much comedy of manners as giddy farce.
  Had he written a book about relationships, it would be a total farce.
  Too much fun still derives from characters' gullibility or stupidity, but the young author is trying to lift himself from farce into comedy.
  It has involved high drama, low comedy, farce, shameless over-acting and an out-of-control budget.
  About eight hundred regulars could be counted on to attend each production, be it drama or farce.
  George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare have used farce to highlight patient vulnerability to unscrupulous physicians.
  He talks mostly about his role in transforming the screenplay from drama to farce.
  But these films - through drama, thriller and farce - move the most demonised figure of our times to centre-screen.
  For that matter, why does a would-be bedroom farce also try to utter philosophic profundities?
2. 1.2 An event or situation that is absurd or disorganized.
  the debate turned into a drunken farce
  那场辩论最后变成了一场酒后闹剧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I took it as a cue to end the farce.
  Bilingual education was a fraud and a farce from the outset.
  The deregulation of the electricity market this weekend was " an absolute farce ", independent power providers claim.
  Because the Government has chosen to reduce the election to a farce, and the Opposition has decided to raise barely a squeak, I have decided not to waste my vote in a pointless exercise.
  The whole episode has swung from farce to tragedy and back again.
  The attempted reign of terror in the name of progressivism has turned into pure farce in some schools.
  Let's hope the tough words from the White House mean that this tragic farce won't continue for much longer.
  The detention and trial of the two workers has been a politically-motivated farce from start to finish.
  It has made a mockery and a farce of the commencement date.
  Players who made their sixes and sevens before the watering were not allowed to go back to try again, rendering the whole event a farce.
  We need to get more good referees like him, or the game is going to become a complete farce.
  Instinctively they turned their back on the farce staged by the trade unions.
  I told you this was going to be a total farce!
  Debates and votings in the assembly, in such cases, become no more than a farce, when every dissent can be purchased and silenced.
  However, it is likely that, under these circumstances, the polling percentage will be very low and threaten to reduce the elections to a farce.
  The doubts so unjustifiably afflicting such people turn the seminar from farce to tragedy.
  By any objective standards, the case has been a farce from the start.
  Last week the Chief Constable rightly pulled the plug on the political farce that the peace process has descended into.
  The whole thing has become a tragic farce.
  The dear mayor and his cronies have not found the time or had any desire to end the farce.
  Synonyms
  absurdity, mockery, travesty, sham, pretence, masquerade, charade, piece of futility, joke, waste of time, laughing stock
  apology, excuse, poor substitute
  informal shambles

Origin

Early 16th century: from French, literally 'stuffing', from farcir 'to stuff', from Latin farcire. An earlier sense of 'forcemeat stuffing' became used metaphorically for comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage.

In 1796 the cookery writer Hannah Glasse wrote, ‘Make a farce with the livers minced small.’ Farce was an adoption of a French word meaning ‘stuffing’, its first sense in English. It took on its modern English meaning when applied to comic interludes which were ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays. From this the term was used for a complete comic play, these days one that involves a lot of slapstick. See also interlude

Rhymes

brass, carse, class, coup de grâce, glass, grass, Grasse, impasse, Kars, kick-ass, kvass, Laplace, Maas, Madras, outclass, pass, sparse, stained glass, surpass, upper class, volte-face

Definition of farce in US English:

farce

nounfɑrsfärs

1A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
闹剧，笑剧，滑稽戏
Example sentencesExamples
- Social dramas, folk farces, and satires also premiered during the nineteenth century.
- The first production combines two one-act farces, which are to be performed at outdoor venues throughout the summer.
- His early works included songs, piano sonatas, and choral pieces, but from 1826 to 1833 he wrote music for burlesques, farces, and melodramas.
- It is a comic farce set in a house of many perversions.
- Even the natural born cynic will be won over by this board/bedroom farce.
- In the course of the evening, you get a thriller, a comedy, a drama, and a farce, which, together, add up to a feast of first-class theatre.
- Appearances belie reality and as the madness gains momentum, hilarity ensues in this classic comic farce of mistaken identities.
- Now, of course, this movie is an absurdist farce, the actor is a clown, and the scene is a joke.
- The rest of her theatrical career was mainly spent as the lead in plays and farces, some of which were enormously successful.
- Because they traffic in exaggeration, all farces are a bit disorienting - not as forbidding as a foreign language, more like a different dialect.
- On stage he has played character roles in farces, pantomime, comedies and serious drama.
- For a farce to be effective, it has to caricature some known human foibles.
- It adds to the farce when they cannot quite make their costume changes fast enough.
- It is not a slapstick farce, it is a comedy of character and relies on the audience observing the detailed interplay between the singers.
- It starts off as a slapstick farce, then tries to provide some commentary on the notion of marriage in this day and age before settling into portraying clichés.
- Meanwhile, the story keeps unraveling like a farce staged at Indianapolis' Hilbert Circle Theater.
- Sandwiched in between are three foot-stomping farces that make you wish you didn't consume any liquids before the show.
- His writings, which include more than thirty-five comedies, farces, adaptations, comic operas, and other light-hearted stage entertainments, were collected in 1798.
- Modern farces are few and far between, that alone makes this one welcome.
- His own farces and burlesques have faded into obscurity, but this contributor to the ‘gaiety of nations' lies buried in Westminster abbey.
Synonyms
slapstick comedy, broad comedy, slapstick, burlesque, vaudeville, travesty, buffoonery
1. 1.1 The genre of farce.
  闹（或笑）剧类作品
  Example sentencesExamples
  It has involved high drama, low comedy, farce, shameless over-acting and an out-of-control budget.
  About eight hundred regulars could be counted on to attend each production, be it drama or farce.
  The series has always been a show about real life repeated as farce.
  For that matter, why does a would-be bedroom farce also try to utter philosophic profundities?
  He talks mostly about his role in transforming the screenplay from drama to farce.
  It is as much social satire as fairy story, as much comedy of manners as giddy farce.
  The tone could change effortlessly and sensitively from farce to tragedy in the space of an episode.
  Had he written a book about relationships, it would be a total farce.
  His farce is built on a familiar idea: that of the well-meaning guest who spreads disruptive chaos.
  But these films - through drama, thriller and farce - move the most demonised figure of our times to centre-screen.
  George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare have used farce to highlight patient vulnerability to unscrupulous physicians.
  Only light comedy survived as a distinct genre akin to farce.
  His direction is tight, keeping a brisk pace and gaining the most out of broad farce and high drama.
  It toys with high-spirited farce but also vigorously satirises the way marriage is viewed entirely as monetary arrangement.
  Sometimes the tone shifts too awkwardly from drama to farce - or there is not enough space between the subtle and the broad.
  Too much fun still derives from characters' gullibility or stupidity, but the young author is trying to lift himself from farce into comedy.
  There are elements of farce in this drama which makes it all the sadder.
  It allowed us to play on the elements of tragedy, drama, comedy, farce, and it allowed us to explore many, many levels.
  Whether melodrama, farce, or even tragedy, it holds the attention.
  It defies any genre classification, because it can go from insanely heavy drama to light farce in a heartbeat.
2. 1.2 An absurd event.
  荒唐事;〈喻〉闹剧
  the debate turned into a drunken farce
  那场辩论最后变成了一场酒后闹剧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The attempted reign of terror in the name of progressivism has turned into pure farce in some schools.
  I took it as a cue to end the farce.
  However, it is likely that, under these circumstances, the polling percentage will be very low and threaten to reduce the elections to a farce.
  The deregulation of the electricity market this weekend was " an absolute farce ", independent power providers claim.
  By any objective standards, the case has been a farce from the start.
  We need to get more good referees like him, or the game is going to become a complete farce.
  Debates and votings in the assembly, in such cases, become no more than a farce, when every dissent can be purchased and silenced.
  It has made a mockery and a farce of the commencement date.
  The whole episode has swung from farce to tragedy and back again.
  Instinctively they turned their back on the farce staged by the trade unions.
  The detention and trial of the two workers has been a politically-motivated farce from start to finish.
  I told you this was going to be a total farce!
  Because the Government has chosen to reduce the election to a farce, and the Opposition has decided to raise barely a squeak, I have decided not to waste my vote in a pointless exercise.
  The whole thing has become a tragic farce.
  Bilingual education was a fraud and a farce from the outset.
  Last week the Chief Constable rightly pulled the plug on the political farce that the peace process has descended into.
  Let's hope the tough words from the White House mean that this tragic farce won't continue for much longer.
  The dear mayor and his cronies have not found the time or had any desire to end the farce.
  Players who made their sixes and sevens before the watering were not allowed to go back to try again, rendering the whole event a farce.
  The doubts so unjustifiably afflicting such people turn the seminar from farce to tragedy.
  Synonyms
  absurdity, mockery, travesty, sham, pretence, masquerade, charade, piece of futility, joke, waste of time, laughing stock

Origin

Early 16th century: from French, literally ‘stuffing’, from farcir ‘to stuff’, from Latin farcire. An earlier sense of ‘forcemeat stuffing’ became used metaphorically for comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage.

词汇	farce
释义	Definition of farce in English: farce noun fɑːsfɑrs 1A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. 闹剧，笑剧，滑稽戏 he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces Example sentencesExamples On stage he has played character roles in farces, pantomime, comedies and serious drama. Now, of course, this movie is an absurdist farce, the actor is a clown, and the scene is a joke. His own farces and burlesques have faded into obscurity, but this contributor to the ‘gaiety of nations' lies buried in Westminster abbey. Social dramas, folk farces, and satires also premiered during the nineteenth century. His writings, which include more than thirty-five comedies, farces, adaptations, comic operas, and other light-hearted stage entertainments, were collected in 1798. The first production combines two one-act farces, which are to be performed at outdoor venues throughout the summer. It adds to the farce when they cannot quite make their costume changes fast enough. For a farce to be effective, it has to caricature some known human foibles. The rest of her theatrical career was mainly spent as the lead in plays and farces, some of which were enormously successful. Meanwhile, the story keeps unraveling like a farce staged at Indianapolis' Hilbert Circle Theater. It is a comic farce set in a house of many perversions. Even the natural born cynic will be won over by this board/bedroom farce. In the course of the evening, you get a thriller, a comedy, a drama, and a farce, which, together, add up to a feast of first-class theatre. Because they traffic in exaggeration, all farces are a bit disorienting - not as forbidding as a foreign language, more like a different dialect. It is not a slapstick farce, it is a comedy of character and relies on the audience observing the detailed interplay between the singers. Sandwiched in between are three foot-stomping farces that make you wish you didn't consume any liquids before the show. Modern farces are few and far between, that alone makes this one welcome. It starts off as a slapstick farce, then tries to provide some commentary on the notion of marriage in this day and age before settling into portraying clichés. His early works included songs, piano sonatas, and choral pieces, but from 1826 to 1833 he wrote music for burlesques, farces, and melodramas. Appearances belie reality and as the madness gains momentum, hilarity ensues in this classic comic farce of mistaken identities. Synonyms slapstick comedy, broad comedy, slapstick, burlesque, vaudeville, travesty, buffoonery skit, squib rare pasquinade 1.1mass noun The dramatic genre represented by farces. the choreographed confusion of real farce Example sentencesExamples It allowed us to play on the elements of tragedy, drama, comedy, farce, and it allowed us to explore many, many levels. His direction is tight, keeping a brisk pace and gaining the most out of broad farce and high drama. Only light comedy survived as a distinct genre akin to farce. It defies any genre classification, because it can go from insanely heavy drama to light farce in a heartbeat. Whether melodrama, farce, or even tragedy, it holds the attention. His farce is built on a familiar idea: that of the well-meaning guest who spreads disruptive chaos. There are elements of farce in this drama which makes it all the sadder. The tone could change effortlessly and sensitively from farce to tragedy in the space of an episode. The series has always been a show about real life repeated as farce. Sometimes the tone shifts too awkwardly from drama to farce - or there is not enough space between the subtle and the broad. It toys with high-spirited farce but also vigorously satirises the way marriage is viewed entirely as monetary arrangement. It is as much social satire as fairy story, as much comedy of manners as giddy farce. Had he written a book about relationships, it would be a total farce. Too much fun still derives from characters' gullibility or stupidity, but the young author is trying to lift himself from farce into comedy. It has involved high drama, low comedy, farce, shameless over-acting and an out-of-control budget. About eight hundred regulars could be counted on to attend each production, be it drama or farce. George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare have used farce to highlight patient vulnerability to unscrupulous physicians. He talks mostly about his role in transforming the screenplay from drama to farce. But these films - through drama, thriller and farce - move the most demonised figure of our times to centre-screen. For that matter, why does a would-be bedroom farce also try to utter philosophic profundities? 1.2 An event or situation that is absurd or disorganized. the debate turned into a drunken farce 那场辩论最后变成了一场酒后闹剧。 Example sentencesExamples I took it as a cue to end the farce. Bilingual education was a fraud and a farce from the outset. The deregulation of the electricity market this weekend was " an absolute farce ", independent power providers claim. Because the Government has chosen to reduce the election to a farce, and the Opposition has decided to raise barely a squeak, I have decided not to waste my vote in a pointless exercise. The whole episode has swung from farce to tragedy and back again. The attempted reign of terror in the name of progressivism has turned into pure farce in some schools. Let's hope the tough words from the White House mean that this tragic farce won't continue for much longer. The detention and trial of the two workers has been a politically-motivated farce from start to finish. It has made a mockery and a farce of the commencement date. Players who made their sixes and sevens before the watering were not allowed to go back to try again, rendering the whole event a farce. We need to get more good referees like him, or the game is going to become a complete farce. Instinctively they turned their back on the farce staged by the trade unions. I told you this was going to be a total farce! Debates and votings in the assembly, in such cases, become no more than a farce, when every dissent can be purchased and silenced. However, it is likely that, under these circumstances, the polling percentage will be very low and threaten to reduce the elections to a farce. The doubts so unjustifiably afflicting such people turn the seminar from farce to tragedy. By any objective standards, the case has been a farce from the start. Last week the Chief Constable rightly pulled the plug on the political farce that the peace process has descended into. The whole thing has become a tragic farce. The dear mayor and his cronies have not found the time or had any desire to end the farce. Synonyms absurdity, mockery, travesty, sham, pretence, masquerade, charade, piece of futility, joke, waste of time, laughing stock apology, excuse, poor substitute informal shambles Origin Early 16th century: from French, literally 'stuffing', from farcir 'to stuff', from Latin farcire. An earlier sense of 'forcemeat stuffing' became used metaphorically for comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage. In 1796 the cookery writer Hannah Glasse wrote, ‘Make a farce with the livers minced small.’ Farce was an adoption of a French word meaning ‘stuffing’, its first sense in English. It took on its modern English meaning when applied to comic interludes which were ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays. From this the term was used for a complete comic play, these days one that involves a lot of slapstick. See also interlude Rhymes brass, carse, class, coup de grâce, glass, grass, Grasse, impasse, Kars, kick-ass, kvass, Laplace, Maas, Madras, outclass, pass, sparse, stained glass, surpass, upper class, volte-face Definition of farce in US English: farce nounfɑrsfärs 1A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. 闹剧，笑剧，滑稽戏 Example sentencesExamples Social dramas, folk farces, and satires also premiered during the nineteenth century. The first production combines two one-act farces, which are to be performed at outdoor venues throughout the summer. His early works included songs, piano sonatas, and choral pieces, but from 1826 to 1833 he wrote music for burlesques, farces, and melodramas. It is a comic farce set in a house of many perversions. Even the natural born cynic will be won over by this board/bedroom farce. In the course of the evening, you get a thriller, a comedy, a drama, and a farce, which, together, add up to a feast of first-class theatre. Appearances belie reality and as the madness gains momentum, hilarity ensues in this classic comic farce of mistaken identities. Now, of course, this movie is an absurdist farce, the actor is a clown, and the scene is a joke. The rest of her theatrical career was mainly spent as the lead in plays and farces, some of which were enormously successful. Because they traffic in exaggeration, all farces are a bit disorienting - not as forbidding as a foreign language, more like a different dialect. On stage he has played character roles in farces, pantomime, comedies and serious drama. For a farce to be effective, it has to caricature some known human foibles. It adds to the farce when they cannot quite make their costume changes fast enough. It is not a slapstick farce, it is a comedy of character and relies on the audience observing the detailed interplay between the singers. It starts off as a slapstick farce, then tries to provide some commentary on the notion of marriage in this day and age before settling into portraying clichés. Meanwhile, the story keeps unraveling like a farce staged at Indianapolis' Hilbert Circle Theater. Sandwiched in between are three foot-stomping farces that make you wish you didn't consume any liquids before the show. His writings, which include more than thirty-five comedies, farces, adaptations, comic operas, and other light-hearted stage entertainments, were collected in 1798. Modern farces are few and far between, that alone makes this one welcome. His own farces and burlesques have faded into obscurity, but this contributor to the ‘gaiety of nations' lies buried in Westminster abbey. Synonyms slapstick comedy, broad comedy, slapstick, burlesque, vaudeville, travesty, buffoonery 1.1 The genre of farce. 闹（或笑）剧类作品 Example sentencesExamples It has involved high drama, low comedy, farce, shameless over-acting and an out-of-control budget. About eight hundred regulars could be counted on to attend each production, be it drama or farce. The series has always been a show about real life repeated as farce. For that matter, why does a would-be bedroom farce also try to utter philosophic profundities? He talks mostly about his role in transforming the screenplay from drama to farce. It is as much social satire as fairy story, as much comedy of manners as giddy farce. The tone could change effortlessly and sensitively from farce to tragedy in the space of an episode. Had he written a book about relationships, it would be a total farce. His farce is built on a familiar idea: that of the well-meaning guest who spreads disruptive chaos. But these films - through drama, thriller and farce - move the most demonised figure of our times to centre-screen. George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare have used farce to highlight patient vulnerability to unscrupulous physicians. Only light comedy survived as a distinct genre akin to farce. His direction is tight, keeping a brisk pace and gaining the most out of broad farce and high drama. It toys with high-spirited farce but also vigorously satirises the way marriage is viewed entirely as monetary arrangement. Sometimes the tone shifts too awkwardly from drama to farce - or there is not enough space between the subtle and the broad. Too much fun still derives from characters' gullibility or stupidity, but the young author is trying to lift himself from farce into comedy. There are elements of farce in this drama which makes it all the sadder. It allowed us to play on the elements of tragedy, drama, comedy, farce, and it allowed us to explore many, many levels. Whether melodrama, farce, or even tragedy, it holds the attention. It defies any genre classification, because it can go from insanely heavy drama to light farce in a heartbeat. 1.2 An absurd event. 荒唐事;〈喻〉闹剧 the debate turned into a drunken farce 那场辩论最后变成了一场酒后闹剧。 Example sentencesExamples The attempted reign of terror in the name of progressivism has turned into pure farce in some schools. I took it as a cue to end the farce. However, it is likely that, under these circumstances, the polling percentage will be very low and threaten to reduce the elections to a farce. The deregulation of the electricity market this weekend was " an absolute farce ", independent power providers claim. By any objective standards, the case has been a farce from the start. We need to get more good referees like him, or the game is going to become a complete farce. Debates and votings in the assembly, in such cases, become no more than a farce, when every dissent can be purchased and silenced. It has made a mockery and a farce of the commencement date. The whole episode has swung from farce to tragedy and back again. Instinctively they turned their back on the farce staged by the trade unions. The detention and trial of the two workers has been a politically-motivated farce from start to finish. I told you this was going to be a total farce! Because the Government has chosen to reduce the election to a farce, and the Opposition has decided to raise barely a squeak, I have decided not to waste my vote in a pointless exercise. The whole thing has become a tragic farce. Bilingual education was a fraud and a farce from the outset. Last week the Chief Constable rightly pulled the plug on the political farce that the peace process has descended into. Let's hope the tough words from the White House mean that this tragic farce won't continue for much longer. The dear mayor and his cronies have not found the time or had any desire to end the farce. Players who made their sixes and sevens before the watering were not allowed to go back to try again, rendering the whole event a farce. The doubts so unjustifiably afflicting such people turn the seminar from farce to tragedy. Synonyms absurdity, mockery, travesty, sham, pretence, masquerade, charade, piece of futility, joke, waste of time, laughing stock Origin Early 16th century: from French, literally ‘stuffing’, from farcir ‘to stuff’, from Latin farcire. An earlier sense of ‘forcemeat stuffing’ became used metaphorically for comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage.
随便看	quader Quadi quadmire quadplex quadra quadrable quadracycle quadragenarian quadragene Quadragesima quadragesimal quadragesima sunday Quadragesima Sunday quadral quadraminium quadran quadrangle quadrangled quadrangles quadrangular quadrangular quadrangularly quadrangulate quadrans Quadrans Muralis