The meaning of Comic

adjective

Wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate.

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The allegations are patently absurd

noun

An absurd state of affairs.

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The incidents that followed bordered on the absurd

adjective

Causing laughter and providing entertainment.

Usage examples:

Such a likeable, amusing man!

verb

Cause (someone) to find something funny.

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He made faces to amuse her

adjective

Entertaining and funny

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An amusing story/person/situation

noun

A ridiculous but amusing person; a clown.

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I am usually quite controlled, but i was irritated that i was forced to spend my time with these sy…

noun

A person who does silly things, sometimes intentionally, that make other people laugh

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He was not the buffoon that people said he was.

adjective

Causing mild amusement; humorous.

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The script is chucklesome rather than hilarious

noun

A comic entertainer, especially one in a circus, wearing a traditional costume and exaggerated make-up.

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A circus clown

verb

Behave in a comical or playful way.

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Harvey clowned around pretending to be a dog

noun

An entertainer who wears silly clothes and makes people laugh by performing tricks without speech

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The people running this school are a bunch of clowns., stop clowning around and get serious!

noun

An entertainer on stage or television whose act is designed to make an audience laugh.

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They sat watching an irish comedian telling jokes

noun

A person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes and amusing stories or by copying the behavior or speech of famous people

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A stand-up comedian

noun

A female comedian.

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Her polished delivery and lightness of touch make her one a new generation of female comediennes, o…

adjective

Amusing, especially in a ludicrous or absurd way.

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A series of comical misunderstandings

adjective

Making you want to laugh; amusing

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Tell me the truth – do i look comical (= strange or foolish) in this hat?

adjective

Entertaining or amusing.

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Fans of these actors will find this book a diverting read

verb

Cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another.

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A scheme to divert water from the river to irrigate agricultural land

adjective

Entertaining and enjoyable

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Her book is highly diverting and full of interesting facts., the first episode in this diverting ne…

adjective

Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement.

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His unique brand of droll self-mockery

noun

A jester or entertainer; a buffoon.

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When english replaced cornish as the language of cornwall, the drolls' stories began to die out as …

adjective

Amusing in an unusual way

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I always loved his droll sense of humor.

adjective

Providing amusement or enjoyment.

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A charming and entertaining companion

verb

Provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment.

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A tremendous game that thoroughly entertained the crowd

adjective

Amusing and enjoyable

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An entertaining movie

adjective

Relating to or resembling farce, especially because of absurd or ridiculous aspects.

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He considered the whole idea farcical

adjective

Very silly, unlikely, or unreasonable, often in a way that is humorous

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The whole situation has become farcical., there were farcical scenes at the meeting.

adjective

Causing laughter or amusement; humorous.

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A funny story

noun

Comic strips in newspapers.

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I read the sports page, funnies, and editorial

An account of an amusing incident

adjective

Extremely amusing.

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Her hilarious novel

adjective

Extremely amusing and causing a lot of laughter

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Her jokes are absolutely hilarious.

noun

A humorous writer, performer, or artist.

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The world's best humorists and cartoonists

adjective

Causing laughter and amusement; comic.

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A humorous and entertaining talk

adjective

Funny, or making you laugh

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Her latest book is a humorous look at teenage life.

adjective

Affected by or deriving from wildly uncontrolled emotion.

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Janet became hysterical and began screaming

noun

A professional joker or ‘fool’ at a medieval court, typically wearing a cap with bells on it and carrying a mock sceptre.

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The gray-furred child laughed, cavorting around the confused guards like a court jester in a mediev…

noun

(in earlier times) a man whose job was to tell jokes and make people laugh

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A court jester

adjective

Fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful.

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She sounded in a jocular mood

adjective

Amusing, showing amusement, or intended to cause amusement

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A jocular mood

noun

A person who is fond of joking.

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But the joke is on the joker, as any toddler could have told him.

adjective

Humorous or flippant.

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A joking manner

verb

Make jokes; talk humorously or flippantly.

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She could laugh and joke with her colleagues

verb

Present participle of joke

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They joked and laughed as they looked at the photos., it's more serious than you think, so please d…

noun

A person who deceives others in a playful way.

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He is the consummate kidder

noun

A person fond of playing pranks.

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He talks about his passion for cricket and his days as a prankster fond of practical jokes.

noun

Someone who plays pranks on people

noun

A person who makes witty remarks.

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A quiet quipster, using his wit to ease the strain of criticism

adjective

Deserving or inviting derision or mockery; absurd.

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That ridiculous tartan cap

adjective

Having or showing a lack of common sense or judgement; absurd and foolish.

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Another of his silly jokes

noun

Denoting fielding positions very close to the batsman.

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Silly mid-on

adjective

Showing a lack of thought or judgment; not serious and not showing much intelligence

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A silly grin, i watched another silly movie last night., it’s time to stop the silliness and get se…

noun

Comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events.

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Slapstick humour

adjective

Characterized by or provoking loud noise or uproar.

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An uproarious party

verb

(especially with reference to an animal's tail) move or cause to move rapidly to and fro.

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His tail began to wag

noun

A single rapid movement from side to side.

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A chirpy wag of the head

verb

Play truant from (school).

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He began hanging out with bad people and wagging school

noun

The capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence.

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She does not lack perception or native wit

verb

Have knowledge.

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I addressed a few words to the lady you wot of

adjective

Showing or characterized by quick and inventive verbal humour.

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A witty remark

adjective

Using words in an amusing and intelligent way; full of wit

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A witty remark, i think she’s one of the wittiest comics on television.

adjective

Amusingly unconventional and idiosyncratic.

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His zany humour

noun

A zany person.

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We are looking for the zany, the serious, the artistic and ridiculous.