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- Dictionarydroll/drəʊl/
adjective
- 1. curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement: "his unique brand of droll self-mockery" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a jester or entertainer; a buffoon. archaic
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The meaning of DROLL is having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality. How to use droll in a sentence.
One meaning is amusing, jocular, droll and the other meaning is odd, quirky, peculiar.
droll. adjective. us / droʊl / uk / drəʊl /. Add to word list. humorous, especially in an unusual way: a droll remark / expression / person. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Humor & humorous. amusingly.
Think of one of those cute-homely troll dolls — blend those two words together — "doll" and "troll" — and you get droll, a description of a figure that is adorably strange and whimsically cute. The word droll comes from the archaic French word drolle, referring to a jolly good fellow.
Droll definition: amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.. See examples of DROLL used in a sentence.
Adj. 1. droll - comical in an odd or whimsical manner; "a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor". humorous, humourous - full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein".
Something or someone that is droll is amusing or witty, sometimes in an unexpected way.
Definition of droll adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun droll, three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Meaning & use. Pronunciation. Frequency. Compounds & derived words. Factsheet. What does the adjective droll mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective droll. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. Entry status.
