macaronic
macaronic is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.
- 2.A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
- 3.A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurd
- absurdity
- absurdness
- alogy
- anticlimax
- bathos
- blunder
- boutade
- bull
- contradictory
- delusion
- disorder
- egregious
- escapade
- exaggeration
- extravagance
- extravagant
- fantastic
- farce
- farrago
- fool
- foolish
- fustian
- gibberish
- imbecility
- inconsistency
- inconsistent
- jargon
- meaning
- monkey
- moonshine
- muddle
- mummery
- name
- nest
- nonsense
- nonsensical
- nugacity
- paradox
- pish
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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