[ US /ˈkɑmɪk/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒmɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or characteristic of comedy
    comic hero
  2. arousing or provoking laughter
    a mirthful experience
    risible courtroom antics
    a comical look of surprise
    it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much
    an amusing fellow
    a comic hat
    an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls
    a very funny writer
    funny stories that made everybody laugh
NOUN
  1. a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts
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How To Use comic In A Sentence

  • There is a comic sight to be seen in some elder trees at present. Times, Sunday Times
  • The efforts of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the ruling elite to divert attention from their country's increasingly threadbare imperial pretensions furnished Musil with comic material galore.
  • The last few words are delivered in a comic staccato.
  • I have seen human bathers acting just like the birds, though from a different cause, bobbing down towards the water, but afraid to dip their heads, and the idea of comicality arose, as it does in most of the ludicrous actions of animals, from their resemblance to those of mankind. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
  • This vanishing reflects both the culture's increasing intolerance of sentimentalism and mainstream comics' marginalizing of women readers.
  • I expect comics to come and be prepared and I expect them not to stand around chinwagging with each other while people are onstage working.
  • Comic : Dawn of the Re-animater cbr - rar pack download at RS Comic : Dawn of the Re-animater
  • Event fatigue is a very real problem with comics these days. Review: Blackest Night #4 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • The entire novel must be read in the light of the comic paradox whereby Zeno thinks he is analysing himself while at the same time being certain that psychoanalysis lacks the means to analyse him.
  • That last complaint is tragicomic given that Memphis schools typically rank among the nation's five worst with fewer than half of black males graduating from high school. Tennessee's Chamber Maids
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