Comic

Definition: Comic

Comic

Adjective

1. Arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics".

2. (drama) of or relating to or characteristic of comedy; "comic hero".

Noun

1. A professional performer who tells jokes and performs comic acts.

2. A magazine devoted to comic strips.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "comic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Occupations

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COMIC

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Synonyms: Comic

The Drama

Adjective: dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy.

Wit

Adjective: witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose, humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish; playful; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, light, spirituel, sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point, ben trovato; comic.

Crosswords: Comic

German (cartoon strip), Romanian (clownish, comic, comical, comically, droll, funny, humorous, jocular, ludicrous, ludicrously, screaming).

I'm going to mock them in my comic strip. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

They were a marketing tie-in with the comic book. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

One might say that living in society today is almost like living in a vast comic strip. (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle; writing credit: Catherine Vimenet; Jean-Luc Godard)

Guy, Guy maybe you're the plucky comic relief. (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard)

What comic strip is that? (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner)

The Comic (1969)

Comic Book Capers (1963)

The Tragedy of a Comic Song (1921)

Comic Shaving (1897)

Last Comic Standing (2003)

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Books

• DC Comics : Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes (reference)

• The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even If You're Not (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Comic Highlights (reference)

• Carl Barks Library In Color Comic Album: Walt Disneys Comics And Stories Series (reference)

• Comic Book Artist (reference)

• Comic Buyers Guide (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Comic Book Confidential (reference)

• Comic Book Villians (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Comic Strip (reference)

• His All-Time Greatest Comic Hits (reference)

• Standup Comic (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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'E is a comic. Credit: Library of Congress.

Should the "Congressional Record," as proposed, print comic strips?. Credit: Library of Congress.

That not so comic character : no time for comedy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Marshall Pinckney Wilder, three-quarter length portraits, eight frames, some in comic poses. Credit: Library of Congress.

Comic Myron Cohen (left) and Phil Spector, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress.

Comic entries in beauty contest during July 4th celebration at Salisbury, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Halle Bros., Westgate. Comic murals. Credit: Library of Congress.

New York Journal's colored comic supplement "In gay New York" by Archie Gunn and R.K. Munkittrick--"McFadden's row of flats" by E.W. Townsend ... / Archie Gunn ; R.F. Outcault. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Alaskan an original comic opera / / from p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by White, N.Y..

Mathews & Bulger in the polite comic play At gay Coney Island by Levin C. Tees. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The pursuit is full of grimaces and comic postures.

It came from the comic Irishman in the bench behind.

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Business

The "Dilbert Principle," an original U.S. comic by Scott Adams, had a run of 150,000 copies. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hong Kong

Three newspapers, however, refused to print the advertisement; one based its refusal on the grounds that the advertisement was "defamatory of the Central Government." In October the South China Morning Post's (SCMP) new English-language competitor, the Hong Kong iMail, abruptly dropped a satirical comic strip, which had found new life after having been dropped by the SCMP in 1995 after it implicated then-PRC Premier Li Peng in the sale of organs from executed prisoners. (references)

Worker Rights

Nepal

These groups commonly use leaflets, comic books, films, speaker programs, and skits to convey antitrafficking messages and education. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "comic": comic book ♦ comic comical funny laughable risible ♦ comic effect ♦ comic element ♦ comic magazine ♦ comic opera ♦ comic paper ♦ comic strip ♦ comic strips ♦ serio comic ♦ tragic comic. Additional references.

Beginning with "comic": comic-book, comic-books, comic-cuts, comic-drama, comic-horror, comic-opera, comic-satiric, comic-strip, comic-surreal, comic-terrible, comic-turns.

Ending with "comic": black-comic, horrific-comic, semi-comic, Serio-comic, teacher-turned-comic, tragic-comic, tragi-comic, ugly-comic.

Containing "comic": suspense-comic-horror.

Albanian

shkrim humoristik, qesharak (absurd, buffo, comical, derisive, farcical, foolish, funny, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous, risible), për të qeshur (comical, hilarious, humorous, laughable), komik (comical, droll, funny), aktor komik (comedian). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكاهي (comical, funny, humorous, wit), ‏كوميدي (farcical), ‏ممثل هزلي (comedian, knockabout), ‏مضحك (buffoon, burlesque, clown, comedian, comical, comics, droll, farcical, foolish, funny, harlequin, humorous, jester, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, merry andrew, ridiculous, risible, silly, wag), ‏مجلة هزلية, ‏هزلي (burlesque, comical, doggie, farcical, funny, humorous, joker, prankish, priceless, quizzical, waggish), ‏العنصر الهزلي, ‏رسوم هزلية (comics, funny). (various references)

Bulgarian 

странен (bizarre, comical, fantastic, fantastical, freakish, funny, grotesque, novel, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, remarkable, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, strange, uncanny, unco, unheard of, weird, whimsical), смешен (amusing, comical, derisive, derisory, farcical, foolish, funny, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, ridiculous, risible, screwy), хумористично списание, хумористичен вестник, хумористичен подлистник, хумористичен (comical, humorous), чудат (comical, crackpot, eccentric, extravagant, faddish, faddy, odd, peculiar, pixilated, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, vagrant, viewy), комичен (buffo, comical, humorous, ragtime), комик (comedian, humorist, humourist), кинокомедия, забавен (amusing, comical, delayed, diverting, entertaining, funny, interesting, laughable, merry, recreational, recreative, sportful), автор на комедии (comedian). (various references)

Chinese 

可笑 (Comical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous). (various references)

Czech

vtipný (facetious, humorous, smart, witty), vtipálek (comedian, joker, tease, witling), legraèní (amusing, chaffy, comical, facetious, funny, good, humorous, piffling), komiks (comics), komik (comedian), komický (amusing, comical, droll, funny, grotesque, humorous, quaint), žertovný (facetious, funny, jocose, larky, prankful, prankish, quizzical), šprýmař (card, comedian, jester, joker, tease, teaser, wag). (various references)

Danish

sjov (comical, funny). (various references)

Dutch

moppig (comical, funny), komisch (comical, funny), koddig (comical, funny), grappig (comical, funny, jocularly). (various references)

Esperanto

komika (comical, funny). (various references)

Faeroese

margháttligur (comical, funny), løgin (comical, curious, funny, interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange), láturligur (comical, funny). (various references)

Farsi 

مضحک (Absurd, Burlesque, Droll, Grotesque, Hilarious, Laughable, Ludicrous, Preposterous, Ridiculous), وابسته به کمدی , خنده دار (Gig, Hilarious, Laughable, Queer, Ridiculous, Waggish). (various references)

Finnish

koomillinen. (various references)

French

comique (comedian, comical). (various references)

Frisian

komysk (comical, funny). (various references)

German

komisch (comical, comically, droll, freaky, funny, humorous, odd, oddball, queer, queerly, quizzical, rum, screwy, strange, unlikely). (various references)

Greek 

κόμικσ, κωμικόσ (comedian, comical, comocally, facetious, farcical, funny, humorous, ragtime). (various references)

Hebrew 

משעשע (amusing, comical, entertaining, funny), מב�"ח (amusing, comical, humorous, jocose, jocular, playful), מצחיק (amusing, comical, droll, funny, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), קומי (comical), �"תולי (comical, facetious, frivolous, humorous, mocking). (various references)

Hungarian

vidám (amused, blithe, blithe as a lark, bobbish, cheerful, chirpy, comical, daft, dashing, droll, exhilarated, felicitous, frisky, frolicsome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, light-hearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, rejoicing, rollicking, sprightly, sunny, to be in high spirits), vicces (funny, jesting, jocose), vígjátéki, tréfás (comical, droll, facetious, funny, have a dig at sy, humorous, jesting, jocose, jocular, ludicrous, pleasant, rollicking, sportive, waggish), mulatságos (amusing, comical, droll, entertaining, facetious, funny, humorous, rich, side-splitting), komikus (comedian, comical, funny, funny man, laughable, ludicrous, stooge). (various references)

Indonesian

pelawak (jester, joker, mime), lucu (arch, burlesque, funny, gaga, jocular), jenaka (arch, droll, funny, jocose, quizzical). (various references)

Italian

comico (comedian, comical, freaky, funniness, funny, laughable, ludicrous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

漫�"� (cartoon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おわらい (comical), ま�"が (cartoon). (various references)

Korean 

희극 (Comedies, comedy). (various references)

Manx

ben aitt. (various references)

Papiamen

kómiko (comical, funny). (various references)

Pig Latin

omiccay

Portuguese

cômico (bouffe, buffo, comedian, comical, funny, laughable, waggish). (various references)

Romanian

comic (clownish, comical, comically, droll, funny, humorous, jocular, ludicrous, ludicrously, screaming), comediant (dissembler, hypocrite, mummer), caraghios (antic, blockhead, booby, buffoon, dolt, eccentric, fool, foolish, funny, ridiculous, ridiculously, screaming, singular, strange, zany), umoristic (facetious, humorous, jocular), hazliu (amusing, droll, entertaining, funny, gamesome, humorous, laughable, waggish). (various references)

Russian 

комический (buffo, comical, grotesque, шутл.). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strip (strip), komičar (comedian, funnyman), komičan (funny), humoristički, filmska komedija. (various references)

Spanish

cómico (amusing, comedian, comical, entertaining, funny, humorous, laughable, player, zany). (various references)

Swedish

komisk (comical, droll, funny, ridiculous, too much, zany). (various references)

Turkish

mizah dergisi, komik (amusing, burlesque, comedian, comical, droll, farcical, funny, funnyman, gilbertian, humorous, jesting, jocose, laugh, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, rum, rummy), komedyen (comedian, funnyman), komedi filmi, komedi (comedy), karikatür öykü, gülünç (amusing, burlesque, camp, derisive, derisory, droll, fantastic, fantastical, foolish, funny, gilbertian, grotesque, humorous, jesting, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous). (various references)

Ukrainian

смішний (amusing, boffo, capricious, comical, droll, funny, laughable, ludicrous, risible, zany), кінокомедія, комічний (jocose), комедійний, актор-комік. (various references)

Vietnamese 

h� i hước (burlesque, comical). (various references)

komikos. (various references)

jocularis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "comic": comical, comicalities, comicality, comically, comics. (additional references)

Words ending with "comic": heroicomic, seriocomic, tragicomic, uncomic. (additional references)

Words containing "comic": heroicomical, seriocomically, tragicomical. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Comic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: camc, canic, Ccmi, Cemc, cemi, cemwc, Ceonocc, Clomid, cmi, Cmis, cmyc, Coic, coim, Comac, comag, Comair, comc, comi, comice, Comici, comick, comico, comin, Cominco, comio, comish, comiss, comix, commi, commis, commish, commissn, commiy, commy, Compc, conci, congic, conif, conip, conjic, coomi, coric, cormice, cosic, Cromemco, Cromlix, cumi, cumis, cumonck, cunic, Cuzick, cymric, domic, Komech, komix, kovic, Mccomish, Mcomish, Ncoic, Nomich, simic, tomic, vomic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: moc.

-3 letters: mi, mo, om.

+1 letter: comics, cosmic.

+2 letters: chromic, comatic, comedic, cometic, comical, mycotic, uncomic.

+3 letters: achromic, cacomixl, coelomic, columbic, complice, copremic, cosmetic, cosmical, coumaric, economic, microbic, moccasin.

+4 letters: acronymic, apomictic, cacomixls, carcinoma, chromatic, coccidium, colchicum, comically, complices, complicit, cosmetics, coulombic, cruciform, economics, macaronic, micaceous, microchip, microcode, microcopy, microcosm, microcyte, microinch, mischoice, moccasins, monarchic, monocytic, mucolytic, myoclonic, occultism, stomachic, timocracy.