travesty
Plural: travesties
Noun
- a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
- An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation.
- A pastiche, parody, or stylistic imitation; a burlesque literary or artistic imitation (typically of a more serious work).
- An appalling event, situation or outcome (especially in relation to another outcome to which it is grossly inferior).
Verb
Verb Forms: travestied, travestying, travesties
- To represent in a false or distorted way; to parody.
- make a travesty of
- To make a travesty of; to parody.
Examples
- A battlefield trial is a travesty of justice.
- His last play was a TRAVESTY of good strategy, giving his opponent an easy win.
Origin / Etymology
From French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”), past participle of travestir (“to disguise”), borrowed from Italian travestire (“to dress up, disguise”), from tra- (“across”) + vestire (“to dress”), from Latin vestiō (“to clothe, dress”), from Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”) from verbal root *wes- (“to dress, clothe”); cognate to English wear. Doublet of travesti.
Synonyms
burlesque, charade, farce, farce comedy, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, caricature, feign
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 14
travesty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtravesty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
travesty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary