BUFFOONISH Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

buffoonish

adjective

as in clownish

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Recent Examples of buffoonish In his hands, Tom can be buffoonish, tragic, doomed and heroic at once. —

David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026 Joe, occasionally buffoonish but a successful and durable politician, sat in the middle. —

David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026 This genre parody of Steven Segal action films and post-9/11 media like 24 is a show-within-a-show spun off Adult Swim web series On Cinema at the Cinema, wherein Tim Heidecker plays an evil, buffoonish, idiotic, shallow, narcissistic, Trumpian version of himself. —

Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026 Ingoglia has offered buffoonish partisanship, not serious auditing. —

Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026

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clownish

Adjective

The Black characters that appeared on-screen closely resembled the clownish stereotypes popularized by the minstrels.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
The clownish dance is a Fortnite video game gesture, and involves making an L shape with fingers, pressing it to one’s forehead, then high kicking from side to side.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 5 Mar. 2026