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comical
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, waggishROGET THESAURUS
comical
Ridiculousness
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