comic
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 5
/ˈkɒmɪk/
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/ˈkɒmɪk/ · /ˈkɑmɪk/
Definition of comic
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
“comic genius”
“a comic stereotype”
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adj
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Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
“comic genius”
“a comic stereotype”
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Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining.
“There is a quartet of comic musicians, who perform on instruments of an inconceivable bassness […]”
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Unintentionally humorous; amusing, ridiculous.
“As there was something excessively comique in the distress of the landlord and his wife […], I could not forbear staying a little to be amused with it.”
- Of or relating to comics or sequential art.
noun
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A comedian.
“She started out as a joke-writer on the radio, and first performed as a comic at the ages of 30.”
- A story composed of drawn images arranged in a sequence, usually with textual captions; a comic book.
- (British)A children's magazine.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).
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