quizzical as an adjective: - 1
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quizzical
adjective
1 quizzical
Playfully vexing (especially by ridicule):
— His face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air.
synonyms: mocking, teasing.
Roget 853:
ridiculous,
ludicrous;
comical;
droll,
funny,
laughable,
pour rire,
grotesque,
farcical,
odd;
whimsical,
whimsical as a dancing bear;
fanciful,
fantastic,
queer,
rum,
quizzical,
quaint,
bizarre;
screaming;
eccentric
etc.
(unconformable)
83;
strange,
outlandish,
out of the way,
baroque,
weird;
awkward
etc.
(ugly)
846.
extravagant,
outre,
monstrous,
preposterous,
bombastic,
inflated,
stilted,
burlesque,
mock heroic.
drollish;
seriocomic,
tragicomic;
gimcrack,
contemptible
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
doggerel;
ironical
etc.
(derisive)
856;
risible.
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Roget 856:
derisory,
derisive;
mock,
mocking;
sarcastic,
ironic,
ironical,
quizzical,
burlesque,
Hudibrastic†;
scurrilous
etc.
(disrespectful)
929.
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2 quizzical
Perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know):
— He had a quizzical expression.
synonym: questioning.
Moby thesaurus: absurd, agape, agog, all agog, amusing, bantering, bizarre, booing, burning with curiosity, catcalling, catechistic, chaffing, consumed with curiosity, curious, derisive, derisory, disbelieving, droll, eccentric, fleering, flippant, fooling, funny, ghoulish, gossipy, grinning, hilarious, hissing, hooting, humorous, incongruous, inquiring, inquisitional, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, interrogational, interrogative, interrogatory, itchy, jeering, jollying, joshing, kidding, laughable, leering, ludicrous, mocking, morbid, morbidly curious, odd, open-eyed, openmouthed, overcurious, panning, priceless, probing, prurient, puzzled, quaint, queer, querying, questioning, quizzing, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, rich, ridiculing, ridiculous, risible, roasting, scoffing, scopophiliac, screaming, searching, skeptical, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, supercurious, taunting, teasing, twitting, unbelieving, voyeuristic, whimsical, witty ... show more.
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