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Antonyms for more comical
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : kom-i-kuh l |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒm ɪ kəl |
Definition of more comical
Origin :- early 15c., "comic," from comic (or Latin comicus) + -al (1). Meaning "funny" is from 1680s. Earlier Middle English had an identical word meaning "epileptic," from Latin morbus comitialis "epilepsy."
- adj amusing
- The jurymen are excellent, and more comical still are the court officers.
- Extract from : « Iconoclasts » by James Huneker
- A more comical result of the Braddock affair was that it made Franklin for a time a military man and a colonel.
- Extract from : « Benjamin Franklin » by John Torrey Morse, Jr.
- Few things are more comical than to hear some douce body, unread in Borrow, gravely inquiring how far his word may be relied upon.
- Extract from : « Res Judicat » by Augustine Birrell
- A more comical countenance than he possessed I don't remember ever to have seen.
- Extract from : « The Kidnapped President » by Guy Boothby
- The facts of the case make this remark of Mrs. Candour's the more comical.
- Extract from : « From the Easy Chair, series 3 » by George William Curtis
- To many, he is more comical than ugly, and no creature has more beautiful eyes than this same homely toad.
- Extract from : « The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young » by Margaret Warner Morley
- This was the more comical, as not one out of ten of the poor wretches he addressed had the chance to refuse either.
- Extract from : « The Great Riots of New York 1712 to 1873 » by J.T. Headley
- No more comical sport could be witnessed than the lurky race which was held every season.
- Extract from : « Looking Seaward Again » by Walter Runciman
- One of these immediately asked the other, "If he had seen a more comical adventure a great while?"
- Extract from : « Joseph Andrews Vol. 1 » by Henry Fielding
- In this fine town of Nagasaki, about five or six o'clock in the evening, one hour of the day is more comical than any other.
- Extract from : « Madame Chrysantheme Complete » by Pierre Loti
Synonyms for more comical
- absurd
- batty
- boffo
- camp
- comic
- comical
- crazy
- crazy shtick
- dippy
- diverting
- dizzy
- droll
- entertaining
- facetious
- farcical
- flaky
- fool
- fool around
- fool-headed
- foolheaded
- for grins
- freaky
- funny
- gelastic
- goofus
- goofy
- gump
- horse's tail
- humorous
- ironic
- jerky
- jocular
- joking
- joshing
- laughable
- light
- loony
- ludicrous
- Mickey Mouse
- nutty
- off the wall
- priceless
- ridiculous
- risible
- schtick
- screwy
- side-splitting
- silly
- wacky
- waggish
- whimsical
- witty
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