Comical

3 definitions found

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

  Comical \Com"ic*al\, a.
     1. Relating to comedy.
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              They deny it to be tragical because its catastrophe
              is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted


              comical.                              --Gay.
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     2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story.
        "Comical adventures." --Dryden.
  
     Syn: Humorous; laughable; funny. See {Droll}. --
          {Com"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Com"ic*al"ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  comical
       adj : 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}, {comic}, {funny}, {laughable},
              {mirthful}, {risible}]

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

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "comical":
     absurd, broad, burlesque, comic, droll, farcical, foolish, funny,
     impish, ludicrous, mock-heroic, ridiculous, roguish, silly,
     slapstick, sportive, tragicomic, visible, waggish