farcical

Preposition: as

bus: However the scheme seems to be completely farcical as the busses will have to run on the roads when they get into the city.

Modifies a noun

• comedy: The answer is Meat, a farcical comedy set in 1950's Barrow.
• situation: There's a farcical situation going on into which we arrive halfway through the film to terrible consternation.
• attempt: Until then a tour of the suburbs had revealed the by now usual and farcical attempt by the army to enter.
• scene: What unfolds is akin to a story in the oral tradition, with didactic passages and extended farcical scenes.
• nature: He is an accurate observer of the stupidity of prejudice and of the grimly farcical nature of cruelty.
• element: You get the odd funny line, occasionally engaging sexual tension and the farcical elements are often played well.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: Night of the Living Dead " , making " Dawn of the Dead " appear almost farcical.. .
• rather: Such a lengthy period seems rather farcical given the speed with which most software is superseded.
• too: Scoop was a little too farcical about matters sacred to Power blocs.
• increasingly: Litvack's script is increasingly farcical as the complex interrelationships of the characters are unveiled and develop.
• completely: In direct military menace terms, his scaremongering is completely farcical.
• little: The final scene became a little farcical toward the end as all matters were dispensed with rather too quickly and the lights dimmed.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Ghibli films have always struck me as being far more poignant, playful yet dramatic, never really becoming farcical in any broad sense.
• seem: Such a lengthy period seems rather farcical given the speed with which most software is superseded.
• turn: In 1998, in circumstances that turned farcical, a Paris journalist was given authorized access to military archives.
• render: Archibald Montgomerie spent an estimated £ 40,000 pounds on staging a medieval tournament at Eglinton Castle, largely rendered farcical by heavy rainfall.