Drollery and Pathos

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Drollery noun - The amusing quality or element in something.

Usage example: though generally serious, the novel about a seriously dysfunctional family is not without drollery

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Pathos is an antonym for drollery.

Nearby Words: droll, drolling

Pathos noun - A quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow).

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Drollery is an antonym for pathos.

Nearby Words: pathetic, pathetics

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Pathos and Drollery. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/drollery/pathos

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