The absurdity of the situation was almost comical.
Source: tatoeba (1118870)
Comical
//ˈkɒmɪkəl//
Synonyms for "comical" (44 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (22)
Related word relations
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Synonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
6 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
72 translations across 20 languages.
Belarusian
4 entries- заба́ўны adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- камі́чны adj (relating to comedy)
- камі́чны adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- паце́шны adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
Bulgarian
4 entries- заба́вен adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- коми́чен adj (relating to comedy)
- сме́шен adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- чуда́т adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
Dutch
4 entries- amusant adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- grappig adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- hilarisch adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
- komisch adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
Finnish
4 entries- huvittava adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- huvittava adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
- komedia adj (relating to comedy)
- koominen adj (relating to comedy)
French
1 entries- comique adj (relating to comedy)
German
4 entries- komisch adj (relating to comedy)
- komisch adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- komödial adj (relating to comedy)
- komödisch adj (relating to comedy)
Hebrew
4 entries- מְגֻחָךְ adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
- מַצְחִיק adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- מגוחך adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
- קוֹמִי adj (relating to comedy)
Irish
1 entries- barrúil adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
Latvian
4 entries- humoristisks adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- jocīgs adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- komisks adj (relating to comedy)
- komisks adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
Norman
1 entries- risibl'ye adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- komisk adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- komisk adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
Polish
4 entries- komiczny adj (relating to comedy)
- komiczny adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- komiczny adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
- zabawny adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
Portuguese
4 entries- cómico adj (relating to comedy)
- cómico adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- cómico adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
- cômico adj (relating to comedy)
Russian
4 entries- заба́вный adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- коми́ческий adj (relating to comedy)
- коми́чный adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- поте́шный adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- àbhachdach adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
- èibhinn adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
Spanish
2 entries- cómico adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- cómico adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
Ukrainian
4 entries- комі́чний adj (relating to comedy)
- комі́чний adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- поті́шний adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- смішни́й adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
Welsh
1 entries- digrif adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
Yiddish
2 entries- קאָמיש adj (being funny, whimsically amusing)
- קאָמיש adj (being laughable, ridiculous)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
She was about thirty years old, and had a sufficiently plump and cheerful face, though it was twisted up into an odd expression of tightness that made it comical.
Source: tatoeba (4048150)
This is almost comical.
Source: tatoeba (4494459)
"How do you say 'eggplant' in Vietnamese?" - "Cà tím" - "That's so funny; separately, those two words would seem to mean a 'purple fish'." - "Well, 'eggplant' is a rather comical word too."
Source: tatoeba (5198845)
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