Comic
//ˈkɒmɪk// adj, noun
adj, noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A comedian.
"She started out as a joke-writer on the radio, and first performed as a comic at the ages of 30."
- 2 a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts wordnet
- 3 A story composed of drawn images arranged in a sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
- 4 A children's magazine. British
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
"comic genius"
- 2 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 […]"
- 3 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."
- 4 Of or relating to comics or sequential art.
Adjective
- 1 arousing or provoking laughter wordnet
- 2 of or relating to or characteristic of comedy wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"Your comic books are on the shelf."
Etymology
From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).
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