Farcical means so ridiculous that it cannot be taken seriously. Everything going wrong at once, and nobody in charge.
The word comes from farce, a kind of comic play built on mistaken identities, slamming doors and impossible coincidences. Calling a real situation farcical means it has reached that level of absurdity, and it is a favourite in sports reporting and in political comment. The noun farce is used the same way, so describing a meeting as a complete farce means nothing useful happened at all.
1adjectivefarcicalAbsurd and ridiculous to the point of comedy.
“The whole selection process was farcical.”
Latin
farciō — to stuff
Medieval Latin
farsa
Old French
farse
Middle English
fars,farsse
English
farce
English, today
farcical
From farce + ical, after comical etc. farce Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce style of humor; stuffing”) (in the latter sense, via Middle English fars,farsse), from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle of Latin farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. a doublet of farse.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA