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Comic

Comic Definition And Meaning
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.

Comic Definition And Meaning

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"

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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