Synonyms for clown
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WiktionaryRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. clownnoun

   A person who acts in a silly fashion.

   Synonyms:
   fool, buffoon

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. clown, buffoonnoun

   a rude or vulgar fool

   Synonyms:
   buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew

2. clown, buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrewverb

   a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior

   Synonyms:
   cuckoo, jackass, goose, goof, fathead, bozo, buffoon, merry andrew, twat, zany, goofball

3. clown, clown around, anticverb

   act as or like a clown

   Synonyms:
   antic, clown around

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1. • Fool

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. clownnoun

   Synonyms:
   rustic, peasant, swain, ploughman, countryman, bumpkin, lout, clodpole, boor, hind

2. clownnoun

   Synonyms:
   churl, ill-bred man

3. clownnoun

   Synonyms:
   buffoon, fool, mountebank, harlequin, jester, droll, punch, zany, scaramouch, merry andrew, jack-pudding, pickle-herring

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1. clownnoun

   Synonyms:
   buffoon, jester, merry-andrew, zany, harlequin, droll, punch, mime, farceur, scaramouch, grimacier jackpudding, boor, lout, gawk, gawky, lubber, put, bumpkin, churl, carl, tike, rustic, hind, clodhopper, yokel, yahoo

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "clown":

   buffoon, bozo, joker, wiseass, clowning, jester, bimbo, joke, mug, mage, fool

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How to use clown in a sentence?

1. Donald Trump:

   We know many of the same people in NY. Behind your back they laugh at you call you a carnival barking clown, they know you inherited a fortune squandered it with stupid deals and incompetence.

2. The Ukrainian:

   I just want to address what Wladimir said about the clown thing, call me a clown, call me circus act, call me fat, ugly, bald. Even call me Sue if you want but don't call me Wladimir Klitschko because that's an insult.

3. Beau Biden:

   It's hard to get any word in with this clown.

4. Ralph Norman:

   The PPP helped people remain employed while the government literally shut down much of the economy. Only an intellectual clown would compare that to what Biden is doing now, there is absolutely no defense for taking someone’s student loans and forcing that debt upon other people. It’s immoral and illegal, and it takes a special kind of idiocy to equate that to the PPP.

5. Deborah Perruzza:

   He was a clown. The nuns [at his school] would call me and say, Joes at it again, he was a clown with everyone.