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Comic

//ˈkɒmɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.

    "comic genius"

  2. 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. 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. 4
    Of or relating to comics or sequential art.
Adjective
  1. 1
    arousing or provoking laughter wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to or characteristic of comedy wordnet
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts wordnet
  3. 3
    A story composed of drawn images arranged in a sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
  4. 4
    A children's magazine. British

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).

Etymology 2

From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).

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