JOCULARITY Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

jocularity

noun

Definition of jocularity

as in playfulness

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Recent Examples of jocularity Or maybe he was lured into his thoughtless comments because of the jocularity inside that room full of reporters. — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 For all his jocularity, the charges against Doyle are serious, carrying a potential sentence of six years in prison. — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 What marks a show of his is the combination of jocularity and generosity. — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025 That sense of jeopardy will always beat The Hundred jocularity every time. — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025

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Noun

By ditching all-wheel drive for pure rear-wheel drive, VW is hoping driving dynamics, tactile steering feedback and chassis playfulness means more to modern buyers than raw neck-snapping speed.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2026
There is romance and melancholy, playfulness and despair, all happening at once.

— PhotoVogue, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of playfulness

Noun

Tom Cruise‘s Digger is being called a very big swing of a dramatic satire that’s provoking very mixed reactions after the film’s first press screenings.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
The result is a boisterous, exhausting drama that struggles to balance trauma, satire and the painful legacy of Black sitcom fame.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of satire

Noun

The material provided her in a Shirley Temple spoof was a sophomoric attempt at satire that got its laughs with pointed needling rather than subtle jabbing.

— Hank Grant, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Don Adams led the slapstick spy spoof as the brainy but hopelessly incompetent Agent Smart, starring alongside Barbara Feldon as the ever-capable Agent 99.

— Jack Dunn, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of spoof

Noun

There was an element of slapstick about Bournemouth’s second, with Justin Kluivert’s strike bouncing off the post and Lukas Hornicek’s before Scott’s follow-up cross looped agonisingly into the net off the outstretched foot of Malick Thiaw.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
With its slapstick mayhem and goofball charm, the film's oddball recruits defied the odds to become a smash at the box office.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of slapstick

Noun

Their accomplices — played by Garret Dillahunt and Danielle Macdonald, among others — are mostly figures of fun, granted limited personality and motivation, as the film increasingly stages their doomed venture as ragged farce.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026
Esmerelda’s become something like the Dwight Schrute of the series, with Impacciatore playing her scenes as a clownlike farce, but her antics don’t intersect with the rest of The Paper’s plotlines tonally or narratively.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of farce

Noun

About five years ago, the former college football player discovered his love for burlesque at a ballroom event in the Phoenix area, launching his career as a performer.

— Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026
The four-movement work begins in anguish but courses through a bucolic, cheerful ländler and a rather violent burlesque before resolving into a final Adagio that critics have long characterized as a quiet but solid affirmation of life.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 14 May 2026

Definition of burlesque

Noun

That show includes animation and sketches as well as absurdist act-outs and character portraits, like Patel’s parody of one-man shows.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
In another sketch, Webb and Olivia Colman parody a makeover show and are confronted by a woman in a burqa.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of parody

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