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

Iron gates wrought into patterns open into a small courtyard filled with metal ephemera, which leads to a door camouflaged by a mural of a bull and a jester.

— Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
Giving the Angry Wave mascot a jester hat was a nice touch, and the argyle stripe really ties the whole thing together.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of jester

Noun

And boy did the late-night host have a lot to say about Donald Trump‘s summer antics.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026
In those folks’ minds, the rough and ready Mancunian antics of the brothers never quite matched — and was perhaps overcompensation for — the sellable sentiment of their songs.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of antic

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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

Set the scene Upon entering, don't let the grandiose, atrium-esque, white-marbled lobby fool you into thinking there's an ounce of formality or stuffiness here.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2026
Anhor The Great had so many pass breakups that counting would’ve been a fool’s errand.

— Caleb Otte, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

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