Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Characteristic of or having to do with comedy.
- adj. Of or relating to comic strips.
- adj. Amusing; humorous: a comic situation involving the family's pets.
- n. A comedian.
- n. A person whose behavior elicits laughter.
- n. Comic strips.
- n. A comic book.
- n. A source of humor in art or life.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining or relating to or of the nature of comedy, as distinct from tragedy. See comedy and drama.
- Raising mirth; fitted to excite merriment.
- n. A comic actor or singer; a writer of comedies; a comical person.
Wiktionary
- adj. being funny
- adj. related to comedy
- n. A comedian
- n. A cartoon story, a graphic novel
- n. UK A children's newspaper
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.
- adj. Causing mirth; ludicrous.
- n. obsolete A comedian.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or characteristic of comedy
- adj. arousing or provoking laughter
- n. a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts
Etymologies
- From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (komikos, "relating to comedy"), from κῶμος (kōmos, "carousal"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English comice, from Latin cōmicus, from Greek kōmikos, from kōmos, revel. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Once in a company of choice spirits Somebody suggested, when "our leading comic" was being discussed, that it would surely be an original idea and a good speculation to "start a _comic_ Punch.”
“Paul Richter said of all the definitions of the comic: namely, that their sole merit is _to be themselves comic_ and to produce, in reality, the fact, which they vainly try to define logically.”
“Let him be ever so exasperated, a comic song -- _a good comic_ song, mind you -- never fails to soothe him.”
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
“It was getting depressing," says Rose McGowan, who will play the title comic-book vixen in Red Sonja, due in 2010.”
“While the term comic is associated with western comics and yotsuba is therefore not a comic.”
Yotsuba Wins! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
“She also will add to her geek cred as Jane Foster, an astrophysicist and the love interest of the title comic-book hero in next summer's”
“If Marvel really wanted to support the retailers and let them benefit from the media attention, they would allow them to order more and release the news on the Wednesday the comic is already supposed to be in the stores.”
“The first X-Men movie comes out, and the comic is a Claremont-written mess.”
“While I can't comment on the webisodes ... the comic is a series of limited series.”
“Even though this comic is a media tie-in, it entertained me and made me eager for more.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘comic’.
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Unknown
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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That's funny...
words that make you smile...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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-ic ending
Words ending in ic, tic or nic.
clastic, elastic, caustic, spastic, frantic, lactic, moronic, ironic, panic, doric, diplomatic, bureaucratic and 202 more...
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL C
cabal, cache, cacophony, cadaverous, cadence, cajole, callous, callow, calumny, calvary, camaraderie, canard and 199 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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librarygoblin's words
crystal, ghost, mist, snow, labyrinth, citadel, tomb, mystery, arcane, conundrum, echo, dynamo and 389 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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Aeonn's Words
discombobulation, dank, crass, abolishment, quite, ubiquitous, crank, catapult, sponge, click, queer, irish and 124 more...
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TT2 Lesson 19
pumps, heel, high-heels, low-heels, unfortunately, however, similar, lucky, definitely, comedy show, zone, comic and 12 more...
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Literarie: Mussolini: My Part In His ...
Bits from the predictably odd and chaotic Spike Milligan book of this title. He writes in diary-style about his service in the British Army's World War II campaign in Italy.
"I admit the way...b4, matelot, asleep, landing, fags, spam, ash wednesday, derv, nebelwurfer, the shits, hole in the ground, cookhouse and 79 more...
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Verbal palette?
Words I like to use or would like to use in the near future. Totally random.
convalescence, bellibone, persnickety, contiguous, pabulum, dummary, preliminary, pristine, funny fuse, dolt, shitless, nebulous and 50 more...
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4 Color World
Comics!
comic, comic book, comic strip, graphic novel, comix, manga, manhua, manhwa, bande dessinée, panel, gutter, writer and 49 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for comic.
bilby "The third male comes on, he's everything a comic should be except funny, about forty-five, rotund, evening dress, a flat cap, a glove on one hand, after each joke he transfers the glove to the other and says 'On the other hand', he ends up with a song that I forgot even as he sang it. He left an indelible blank on my mind."
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.' Apr 18, 2009