English to Esperanto Meaning of droll - drola

Droll :

drola

noun

drola, ĵokeron, arlekeno, klaŭno, provizejo, mima

verb

moki, drola, diboĉa

adjective

drola, amuza

Droll :: drolaDroller :: drollerDrollery :: drolleryDrollest :: drollestDrollness :: drollnessDrolly :: drolly

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Definitions of droll in English

Adjective(1) comical in an odd or whimsical manner

Examples of droll in English

(1) The running commentary is informative and amusingly droll .(2) They were as droll as when I saw them back in February.(3) The whole scenario is rather droll at this point.(4) The duke was characteristically droll about his political career.(5) Surely the man who dispatched such droll rejection slips to thousands of chagrined writers should not be too dismayed to find himself paid back in kind-albeit with, as editors are wont to say, sincere regrets.(6) The decorations alone, often of densely packed plants and flowers with a symbolic significance now lost on most of us, are astonishingly imaginative, sometimes bawdy and often droll .(7) Though not slapstick or of the knee-slapping variety, Hamer is droll and often wickedly subtle in his deadly strain of humour.(8) He's rather droll when he frames his request, but it's a sincere one.(9) Perhaps, I think, he just went out on one of his famous walks, walks that I shared for many droll miles.(10) If you're looking for a nice enough, quirky and droll adventure film that you won't remember on Monday, then here's your movie.(11) He made the tasting far less arduous than his younger, more dashing, but decidedly less droll counterpart who was running the show this time around.(12) The tabloids did their thing, were quite droll about it.(13) But just as often, the movie is droll , filled with pithy, hardboiled comebacks.(14) Many of the show's laughs derive from Lee's droll determination to take the ditty literally: how can an owl play a small guitar?(15) Of course, the jokes are all on backwoods Southerners, so if that isn't an amusing subject to you, don't pick up this droll satire.(16) They're droll , yet morbid, featuring amusing little colorful happy people behaving with perfect presence of mind as their 747 ditches into the Atlantic.

(1) drogue parachute ::

drogue paraŝuto

Synonyms

Adjective

1. funny ::

amuza

2. humorous ::

humura

3. amusing ::

amuzan

4. comic ::

komika

5. comical ::

komika

7. hilarious ::

amuzega

8. clownish ::

clownish

9. farcical ::

bufono

10. zany ::

ŝerca

11. quirky ::

idiosinkrazia

12. jocular ::

ŝercema

13. lighthearted ::

gaja

14. whimsical ::

kaprica

15. facetious ::

ŝerca

16. witty ::

spritaj

17. clever ::

saĝa

18. wry ::

ironia

19. tongue-in-cheek ::

lang-en-vanga

20. waggish ::

Kapablaj

21. wacky ::

arlekeneca

22. side-splitting ::

flankaj forkiĝanta

23. rib-tickling ::

ripo-tiklante

Antonyms

1. lame ::

lama

Different Forms

droll, droller, drollest, drollness, drolly

Word Example from TV Shows

Well, I think you're delightfully DROLL. Or as the French say:

The Big Bang Theory Season 1, Episode 15

Droll.

The Big Bang Theory Season 5, Episode 7

Not as DROLL as a grown man

The Big Bang Theory Season 5, Episode 7

That was pretty DROLL.

The Big Bang Theory Season 5, Episode 7

Such a DROLL little fellow.

Game of Thrones Season 2, Episode 8

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