Definition of "farce" in English

noun

1. (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.

2. (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.

   • The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.

3. (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.

   • The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.

4. (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.

5. (countable) An elaborate lie.

6. (cooking) Forcemeat, stuffing.

verb

1. (transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.

2. (transitive, figurative) To fill full; to stuff.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To make fat.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.

5. Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”).