comedy | (noun) light and humorous drama with a happy ending | - |
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(noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, drollery, funniness |
gobbledygook | (noun) incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists | - |
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greedy | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, prehensile |
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(adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, esurient |
(adjective) wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume | - |
needy | (adjective) demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree | - |
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(adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken |
(noun) needy people collectively | - |
overgreedy | (adjective) excessively gluttonous | Synonyms: too-greedy |
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reedy | (adjective) having a tone of a reed instrument | Synonyms: wheezy |
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(adjective) resembling a reed in being upright and slender | Synonyms: reedlike |
remedy | (noun) act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil | Synonyms: redress, remediation |
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(noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: curative, cure, therapeutic |
(verb) provide relief for | Synonyms: relieve |
(verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, repair |
seedy | (adjective) full of seeds | - |
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(adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, sleazy, sordid, squalid |
(adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
(adjective) shabby and untidy | Synonyms: scruffy |
seriocomedy | (noun) a comedy with serious elements or overtones | Synonyms: tragicomedy |
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speedy | (adjective) characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed | Synonyms: rapid |
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(adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | Synonyms: quick |
tragedy | (noun) drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity | - |
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(noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster |
tragicomedy | (noun) a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating | - |
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(noun) a comedy with serious elements or overtones | Synonyms: seriocomedy |
tweedy | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubbly, nubby, slubbed |
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(adjective) (of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy | - |
weedy | (adjective) abounding with or resembling weeds | - |
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(adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight |