farce

in Vietnamese Truyện cười nực, hài kịch

BrE /fɑːs/ AmE /fɑːrs/

noun en → vi

1 COMEDY [singular] B2

Truyện cười nực, hài kịch

a play, film, or book that is intended to be funny but which has a very silly story and characters who do not act in a natural way

  • a farce

Collocations a political farce · a tragicomedy of errors

  • The film was a complete farce.

    Phim đó là một trò hề hoàn toàn.

2 SITUATION [singular] B2

Hình cảnh nực cười, trò hề

a situation that is ridiculous and not serious, especially one in which people pretend to be doing something important when they are really just wasting time or behaving badly

  • a farce

Collocations a political farce · an absurd situation

  • The meeting was a complete farce.

    Hội nghị đó là một trò hề hoàn toàn.