Comedy vs Drollery - What's the difference?
comedy | drollery | Related terms |
archaic Greece. a choric song of celebration or revel
ancient Greece. a light, amusing play with a happy ending
medieval Europe.'' a narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., ''The Divine Comedy )
(drama) A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone
(drama) The genre of such works
entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance
the art of composing comedy
a humorous event
Comical quality.
* 1915 , :
Amusing behavior.
Something humorous, funny or comical.
(archaic) a puppet show; a comic play or entertainment; a comic picture; a caricature.
A joke; a funny story.
Comedy is a related term of drollery.
As nouns the difference between comedy and drollery
is that comedy is archaic greece a choric song of celebration or revel while drollery is comical quality.comedy
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Alternative forms
* comedie * (archaic) * (archaic)Noun
- Why would you be watching comedy when there are kids starving right now?
Antonyms
* drama * tragedyDerived terms
* comedic * comedically * comedy of errors * situation comedy, sitcom * comic * comediandrollery
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Noun
(drolleries)- He found that Sally had a restrained, but keen, sense of the ridiculous, and she made remarks about the girls or the men who were set over them which amused him by their unexpected drollery .
