Word Meanings - DROLLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay. 2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: A puppet show; also, a puppet. Shak.

Additional info about word: DROLLERY

1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay. 2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: A puppet show; also, a puppet. Shak. A lively or comic picture. I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DROLLERY)

• Humor
• Disposition
• temper
• mood
• caprice
• jocoseness
• pleasantry
• frame
• drollery
• fun

Related words: (words related to DROLLERY)

• HUMOR
  A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• HUMOROUSLY
  1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily.
• TEMPERER
  One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
• HUMORSOMENESS
  Quality of being humorsome.
• TEMPERATURE
  Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or
• TEMPERAMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. Sir T. Browne.
• HUMORIST
  One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors. 2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways. He . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life. Addison. 3. One who displays
• HUMORSOMELY
  Pleasantly; humorously.
• TEMPERATE
  1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. 2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language. She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. Shak. That sober freedom out of which there springs Our
• TEMPER
  To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound. Dryden. 4. To govern; to manage. With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth. Spenser.
• FRAMEWORK
  1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton. 2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
• FRAMER
  One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
• TEMPERATENESS
  The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.
• FRAME-UP
  A conspiracy or plot, esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person on false evidence.
• TEMPERANCY
  Temperance.
• HUMORAL
  Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever. Humoral pathology , the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.
• TEMPERATIVE
  Having power to temper. T. Granger.
• HUMORALISM
  The state or quality of being humoral.
• TEMPERA
  A mode or process of painting; distemper. Note: The term is applied especially to early Italian painting, common vehicles of which were yolk of egg, yolk and white of egg mixed together, the white juice of the fig tree, and the like.
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• ATTEMPER
  1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice
• DISTEMPERATURE
  1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
• UNTEMPERATE
  Intemperate.
• ILL-TEMPERED
  1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.
• CONTEMPERATURE
  The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.
• MISTEMPER
  To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head. Warner. This inundation of mistempered humor. Shak.
• INTEMPERANCY
  Intemperance.
• INTEMPERANT
  Intemperate. Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall.
• INFRAMEDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. E. Forbes.
• INTEMPERATENESS
  1. The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking. 2. Severity of weather; inclemency. Boyle. By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors. Sir M.
• INTEMPERAMENT
  A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part. Harvey.
• DISHUMOR
  Ill humor.
• DISTEMPERANCE
  Distemperature.