Synonyms for clown
klaʊnclown

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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

Matched Categories

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

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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. Charles Pierce:

   You know, we all saw what the clown car looked like in 2012. And it looks like in 2016, we`re going to have a clown SUV.

2. 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.

3. Carl Sagan:

   But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

4. Carl Sagan:

   They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

5. Vargas Llosa:

   He is a danger to the United States, it is a country that is too important for the rest of the world to have in the White House a clown, a demagogue and a racist like Mr Trump.