Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characteristic of or having to do with comedy.
- adjective Of or relating to comic strips.
- adjective Amusing; humorous.
- noun A comedian.
- noun A person whose behavior elicits laughter.
- noun Comic strips.
- noun A comic book.
- noun A source of humor in art or life.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to or of the nature of comedy, as distinct from tragedy. See
comedy and drama. - Raising mirth; fitted to excite merriment.
- noun A comic actor or singer; a writer of comedies; a comical person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.
- adjective Causing mirth; ludicrous.
- noun obsolete A comedian.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective being
funny - adjective related to
comedy - noun A
comedian - noun A
cartoon story, agraphic novel - noun UK A children's
newspaper
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of comedy
- adjective arousing or provoking laughter
- noun a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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."
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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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.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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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 Harry Collingwood 1886
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"It was getting depressing," says Rose McGowan, who will play the title comic-book vixen in Red Sonja, due in 2010.
Women at Comic-Con Melissa Silverstein 2008
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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 2007
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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
USATODAY.com News 2010
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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
USATODAY.com News 2010
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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.
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The first X-Men movie comes out, and the comic is a Claremont-written mess.
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While I can't comment on the webisodes ... the comic is a series of limited series.
bilby commented on the word comic
"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.'
April 18, 2009