Thesaurus
Synonyms and Antonyms of clowns
- a clown wearing big floppy shoes and a red wig
buffi (or buffos), buffoons, harlequins, zanies
antics [archaic], fools, graciosos, jesters, motleys, scaramouches
mimes, mimics, mummers, pantaloons
comedians, comediennes, comics, drolls, farceurs, funnymen, gaggers, gagmen, gagsters, humorists, jokers, jokesters, merry-andrews, second bananas, stand-ups, top bananas, wags, wits
- you should stay away from that clown
bastards, beasts, bleeders [British], blighters [chiefly British], boors, bounders, buggers, buzzards, cads, chuffs, churls, creeps, cretins, cruds [slang], crumbs [slang], curs, dirtbags [slang], dogs, finks, heels, hounds, jerks, jokers, louses, louts, pills, rats, rat finks, reptiles, rotters, schmucks [slang], scums, scumbags [slang], scuzzballs [slang], skunks (also skunk), sleazes, sleazebags [slang], sleazeballs [slang], slimes, slimeballs [slang], slobs, snakes, so-and-sos (or so-and-so's), sods [chiefly British], stinkards, stinkers, swine, toads, varmints, vermin
barbarians, brutes, cavemen, Neanderthals, savages
lowlifes (also lowlives), miscreants, rascals, rogues, roughnecks, scabs, scamps, scoundrels, villains, wretches
boobies, doofuses (also dufuses) [slang], fools, jackasses, nincompoops, ninnies, nits [chiefly British], nitwits, nuts, schmoes [slang]
airheads, birdbrains, blockheads, dinks [slang], dolts, dopes, dorks [slang], goons, half-wits, idiots, imbeciles, morons, turkeys
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