About The Word Comic
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Comic
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What's The Definition Of Comic?
[n] a magazine devoted to comic strips
[n] a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comic acts [adj] arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics" [adj] (drama) of or relating to or characteristic of comedy; "comic hero" Synonyms | Synonyms for Comic: amusing | comedian | comic book | comical | funny | humorous | humourous | laughable | mirthful | risible Related Terms | Find terms related to Comic: amusing | animated cartoon | antic | banana | broad | burlesque | burlesquer | camp | campy | caricature | caricaturist | cartoon | clever | clown | comedian | comedienne | comic book | comic strip | comical | comics | cutup | droll | epigrammatist | facetious | fantastic | farcer | farceur | farceuse | farcical | farcist | funnies | funny | funnyman | gag writer | gagman | gagster | genteel comedian | grotesque | hilarious | hoke comic | humorist | humorous | ironist | jester | jocose | jocular | joker | jokesmith | jokester | lampooner | light | light comedian | low comedian | ludicrous | madcap | mirthful | mock-heroic | mocking | parodist | prankster | punner | punster | quipster | reparteeist | ridiculing | ridiculous | satirist | slapstick | slapstick comedian | stand-up comic | tragicomic | visible | wag | waggish | wagwit | wisecracker | wit | witling | witty | zany See Also | Alfred Hawthorne | Arthur Marx | Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel | Benny Hill | Bob Hope | buffoon | Burns | Buster Keaton | Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | Chico | clown | comedienne | Dudley Moore | Dudley Stuart John Moore | Durante | Fields | gagman | George Burns | Groucho | Hardy | Harpo | Harry Lauder | Herbert Marx | Hill | Hope | Jimmy Durante | joker | jokester | Joseph Francis Keaton | Julius Marx | Keaton | Lauder | Laurel | Leonard Marx | Leslie Townes Hope | mag | magazine | Martin | Marx | merry andrew | Moore | Nathan Birnbaum | Oliver Hardy | performer | performing artist | Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin | Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder | Stan Laurel | standup comedian | Steve Martin | top banana | W. C. Fields | William Claude Dukenfield | Zeppo Comic In Webster's Dictionary \Com"ic\, a. [L. comicus pertaining to comedy, Gr. ?: cf.
F. comique. See {Comedy}.]
1. Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.
I can not for the stage a drama lay, Tragic or
comic, but thou writ'st the play. --B. Jonson.
2. Causing mirth; ludicrous. ``Comic shows.'' --Shak.
\Com"ic\, n. A comedian. [Obs.] --Steele. |
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