Comical \Com"ic*al\, a.
1. Relating to comedy.
[1913 Webster]
They deny it to be tragical because its catastrophe
is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted
comical. --Gay.
[1913 Webster]
2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story.
"Comical adventures." --Dryden.
Syn: Humorous; laughable; funny. See Droll. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
comical
adj : 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" [syn: amusing, comic, funny, laughable,
mirthful, risible]
WordNet (r) 2.0
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "comical":
absurd, broad, burlesque, comic, droll, farcical, foolish, funny,
impish, ludicrous, mock-heroic, ridiculous, roguish, silly,
slapstick, sportive, tragicomic, visible, waggish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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