Comic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Comic \Com"ic\ (k[o^]m"[i^]k), a. [L. comicus pertaining to
     comedy, Gr. kwmiko`s: cf. F. comique. See {Comedy}.]
     1. Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.
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              I can not for the stage a drama lay,


              Tragic or comic, but thou writ'st the play. --B.
                                                    Jonson.
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     2. Causing mirth; ludicrous. "Comic shows." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Comic \Com"ic\, n.
     A comedian. [Obs.] --Steele.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  comic
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {amusing}, {comical},
               {funny}, {laughable}, {mirthful}, {risible}]
       2: of or relating to or characteristic of comedy; "comic hero"
       n : a professional performer who tells jokes and performs
           comical acts [syn: {comedian}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "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