His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
Source: tatoeba (6399682)
Droll
//dɹəʊl//
Synonyms for "droll" (83 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (41)
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Translations
34 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- комичен adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
- смешен adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Catalan
1 entries- estranyament divertit adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 离奇可笑的; 滑稽古怪的 adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Czech
4 entries- komický adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
- směšný adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
- šaškovský adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
- kašpar noun ((archaic in English) a funny person; a buffoon, a wag)
Esperanto
1 entries- drola adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Finnish
2 entries- hassunkurinen adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
- lystikäs adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
French
1 entries- fantaisiste adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Galician
1 entries- garoufeiro adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
German
1 entries- drollig adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Hungarian
4 entries- bohó adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
- bohókás adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
- bolondos adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
- muris adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Ido
1 entries- fantaziema adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Irish
1 entries- áiféiseach adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Italian
4 entries- buffo adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
- divertente adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
- faceto adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
- strano adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Portuguese
1 entries- engraçado adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Russian
1 entries- чудной adj (oddly humorous; whimsical)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
And yet Gretchen is worse, for she mortifies me, and laughs at my mistakes, and makes them seem so droll to everybody else.
Source: tatoeba (11786549)
From morning till night she prattles away, hopping, skipping, and jumping from one subject to another, and saying something sensible or droll on each.
Source: tatoeba (11950002)
Very droll, minister.
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