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# droll

«droll» in Mova's school dictionary: **funny in a quiet, odd or amusing way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (droll, droller, drollest)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) funny in a quiet, odd or amusing way [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droll/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales a funny joke, a comic character, or a strange but amusing remark

### examples

- The clown made a droll face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droll/#x1)
- That was a droll joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droll/#x2)
- "How droll the world is!" he laughed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droll/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «droll» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/droll/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.