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Synonyms & Antonyms for antic
Synonyms: Noun
caper, capriccio, dido, escapade, frolic, gag, jest, knavery, monkeyshine(s), practical joke, prank, rag [chiefly British], roguery, shavie [Scottish], shine(s), trick, waggery
Synonyms: Adjective
chucklesome, comedic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, humoristic, humorous, hysterical (also hysteric), killing, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproarious
Antonyms: Adjective
humorless, lame, unamusing, uncomic, unfunny, unhumorous, unhysterical
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Examples of antic in a Sentence
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we'll have no more of your antics, so just settle downRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
The announcers pointed out in the mound-visit video that Coach Drake holds the Northwoods League record for ejections, so these antics are nothing new — albeit extremely cute. — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, "Baseball team's 6-year-old 'Coach Drake' unleashed a fiery post-ejection tirade," 16 July 2019 His antics were undoubtedly no surprise to Robbie, as Pitt, along with George Clooney, has a bit of a reputation as a prankster. — Time, "Leaping Brad Pitt Gloriously Photobombed Margot Robbie," 12 July 2019 Eventually his antics were so repugnant that the Church was obliged to remove him from his post. — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, "Exploring Polynesia's Islands by Cruise," 28 June 2019 Although Abby’s antics are nothing new, this season is different because most of the team is not local to the Pittsburgh area. — Mackenzie Dunn, Woman's Day, "Abby Lee Miller Forced Dancers to Pick Their Duet Partners In This Week's 'Dance Moms'," 19 June 2019 His courtside antics are now part of the spectacle. — The Economist, "Canadians are embracing basketball," 14 June 2019 The real shame is that LeBron’s antics could have sparked serious conversation about generational and cultural differences in parenting expectations, about how adults should behave—and often misbehave—at their kids’ games. — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, "The Sport of Summer Is Having Downright Despicable Opinions," 9 Aug. 2019 Despite Smith’s antics, the raid at his family’s 20-year-old business was symbolic of the new lows in the relationship between law enforcement and the towing companies who have for decades worked together. — Christopher Harress | Charress@al.com, al, "Could ‘illegal’ Mobile city law derail towing probe?," 4 Aug. 2019 There is certainly history between Machado and Byrnes, with Machado’s playoff antics coming under fire in Byrnes’ email newsletter last October. — Jeff Sanders, chicagotribune.com, "Manny Machado calls MLB Network analysts Eric Byrnes and Dan Plesac ‘the biggest tools out there’," 18 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
And if Monday’s one-minute teaser trailer is any indication, the show wants to be a rager, with wild nights set in the 1800s and a period cast boasting a slew of antic-ready youngsters. — Los Angeles Times, "What the ‘Dickinson’? Trailer for AppleTV+ comedy turns poet into a party girl," 26 Aug. 2019 And Weaving excels in the both the antic and ferocious extremes. — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, "‘Ready or Not’ review: I take this man as my lawful wedded husband. Now, hand me that crossbow.," 19 Aug. 2019 Ultimately, the cliched characterizations weaken Why Women Kill far more than its antic hijinks. — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Why Women Kill': TV Review," 15 Aug. 2019 Now that he is poised to become prime minister, there’s a jarring contrast between the air of antic hilarity that so often accrues to Johnson’s public image and the utter seriousness of Britain’s political predicament. — Christina Boyle, Los Angeles Times, "Boris Johnson, one of Britain’s most eccentric politicians, on track to be next prime minister," 22 July 2019 But Algren resembles the two masters only superficially, in his antic grotesquerie; any deeper affinity is wholly wanting. — Algis Valiunas, National Review, "Nelson Algren: Chicago’s Bard of the Downtrodden," 11 July 2019 Harris and Cory Booker instantly saluted Bernie Sanders’s socialized medicine or, even more incredibly, the antic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s multitrillion-dollar Green New Deal? — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, "Trump’s ‘Sleepy Joe’ Problem," 19 June 2019 One such antic involved throwing his entire body at the plastic glass that divides a hockey rink from the spectators. — al.com, "Rooting for ‘Chappy’: Why the Stanley Cup Finals are resurrecting Mobile Mystick memories," 6 June 2019 Zohar, Criss, Agosto and Carmitchel are having a blast on the Diversionary stage, and in these antic scenes doing so without the relationship-y navel-gazing so endemic to TV and movie rom-coms. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: Diversionary’s ‘Significant Other’ lends fresh zip to familiar romantic-comedy tropes," 3 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'antic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
