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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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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