comical

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: com=i=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

comical, a. 

•  Relating to comedy.  [1913 Webster]

  "They deny it to be tragical because its catastrophe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical."  [1913 Webster]
•  Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story.  Dryden.

Syn. -- Humorous; laughable; funny. See Droll.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

comical, adj. funny; causing laughter.

Derivative

comicality n. comically adv.

Etymology

COMIC

THESAURUS

comical

absurd, broad, burlesque, comic, droll, farcical, foolish, funny, impish, ludicrous, mock-heroic, ridiculous, roguish, silly, slapstick, sportive, tragicomic, visible, waggish

ROGET THESAURUS

comical

Ridiculousness

N ridiculousness, comicality, oddity, extravagance, drollery, farce, comedy, burlesque, buffoonery, frippery, doggerel verses, absurdity, bombast, anticlimax, bathos, eccentricity, monstrosity, laughingstock, ridiculous, ludicrous, comical, droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd, whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear, fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre, screaming, eccentric, strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird, awkward, extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic, drollish, seriocomic, tragicomic, gimcrack, contemptible, doggerel, ironical, risible, risum teneatis amici, rideret Heraclitus, du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.