Thesaurus results for GRACIOSO

gracioso

noun

Definition of gracioso

as in jester

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Recent Examples of gracioso With Edusei’s fastidious beat, the orchestra played with hair-trigger precision, and a huge dynamic range, in Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso. — Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022 The same praise could be heaped upon Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, which opened the evening. — Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 19 May 2017

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Noun

In that light, a collection consisting of nothing but down-home music could be seen as the ultimate joke from a pair of indie-punk jesters.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 1 Aug. 2026
In his brief time in WWE, Danhausen has already haunted (and defeated) the league’s former court-jester extraordinaire, The Miz (Miz, I’d argue, is the better in-ring performer), as well as YouTuber IShowSpeed, (Chad) Gable, Dominik Mysterio and Kit Wilson.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2026

Definition of jester

Noun

While his antics look like something straight out of a Savannah Bananas game, the dude can throw a baseball.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
However, he has been known to steal the show on a number of occasions with his cheeky antics, from dancing to the band’s music to dramatically covering his ears during a noisy flypast.

— Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of antic

Noun

The fare isn’t noteworthy or unique, except for the onion soup with its madcap, enormous puff pastry lid.

— Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
New reads abound for your vacation tote throughout the weeks of July, with fiction picks featuring a Carnival cruise casualty, a highly entertaining jewel heist at the Waldorf-Astoria, and a Soviet-era madcap adventure.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of madcap

Noun

There was simply no reason to try to match that; and Bogaerts would have been a fool not to accept it.

— Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
And coming back with a movie that has anywhere near the impact of No Way Home’s untoppable uniting of Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Holland would seem a fool’s errand.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 July 2026

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