comic
Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
Adjective
- Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
- comic genius
- a comic stereotype
- Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining.
- There is a quartet of comic musicians, who perform on instruments of an inconceivable bassness […] - 1954, Canadian Saturday Night: A Magazine of Business & National Affairs:
- Unintentionally humorous; amusing, ridiculous.
- As there was something excessively comique in the distress of the landlord and his wife […], I could not forbear staying a little to be amused with it. - 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page...
- Of or relating to comics or sequential art.
Origin
From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).
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comedian comedy comical comicality comically comicalness comic cut comicness comiconomenclaturist comic opera comic relief comicry comic strip comic timing heroicomic noncomic semicomic tragicomic uncomic
Noun
- A comedian.
- She started out as a joke-writer on the radio, and first performed as a comic at the ages of 30.
- A story composed of drawn images arranged in a sequence, usually with textual captions; a comic book.
- A children's magazine.
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comic-adjacent comicana comic book comicdom comic dub comics comic strip comicverse film comic minicomic momic photocomic prop comic rage comic scienticomic scientificomic sprite comic stand-up comic webcomic