Antonyms for circus
ˈsɜr kəscir·cus

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1. circusnoun

   a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals

   "he ran away from home to join the circus"

   Synonyms:
   carnival, genus Circus

2. circusnoun

   a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals

   "the children always love to go to the circus"

   Synonyms:
   carnival, genus Circus

3. circus, carnivalnoun

   a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment

   "it was so funny it was a circus"; "the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere"

   Synonyms:
   fair, funfair, carnival, genus Circus

4. circusnoun

   (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games

   Synonyms:
   carnival, genus Circus

5. circusnoun

   an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent

   "they used the elephants to help put up the circus"

   Synonyms:
   carnival, genus Circus

6. Circus, genus Circusnoun

   a genus of haws comprising the harriers

   Synonyms:
   carnival, genus Circus

How to use circus in a sentence?

1. Linus Jansen:

   Recently, we took a group to the circus, we offer people things to see that are hard to afford in New York if you don’t have much money.

2. Matt Mackowiak:

   Calling into CNN and making outrageous comments about Megyn Kelly and making it even more of a circus than it already is, Roger just felt like he couldn't stand by him.

3. Dan Pfeiffer:

   I expect 2016 will look a lot like 2015, the president and his team continuing to put substantive legacy-worth points on the board while the political circus is focused on Trump and the rest.

4. Clarence Thomas:

   This is a circus, it's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a Black American, as far as I am concerned, it's a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.

5. Robert Mickens:

   It's very important that they do this right and I'm pretty sure that the date was chosen so that there wasn't a big media circus surrounding day one of the trial.

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