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Antonyms for comic

Grammar : Noun
Spell : kom-ik
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒm ɪk

Definition of comic

Origin :
  • late 14c., "of comedy in the dramatic sense," from Latin comicus "of comedy, represented in comedy, in comic style," from Greek komikos "of or pertaining to comedy," from komos (see comedy). Meaning "intentionally funny" first recorded 1791, and comedic (1630s) has since picked up the older sense of the word.
  • Speaking of the masters of the comedic spirit (if I call it, as he does, the Comic Spirit, this darkened generation will suppose me to refer to the animal spirits of tomfools and merryandrews) .... [G.B. Shaw, 1897]
  • Something that is comic has comedy as its aim or origin; something is comical if the effect is comedy, whether intended or not.
  • noun funny person, often professional
Example sentences :
  • Aside to audience in comic despair, with appropriate gesture.
  • Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
  • It is a pity that the comic chorus had disappeared, or the picture were complete.
  • Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
  • Serse, it must be explained, is a comic opera, and the only comic opera that Handel ever wrote.
  • Extract from : « Handel » by Edward J. Dent
  • Of course, there'd have to be a comic part for me, too, but you needn't worry much about that.
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • You couldn't sing a comic song on the pony's back, could you?'
  • Extract from : « The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby » by Charles Dickens
  • Her name is not Buttons; she is not in the least a contemptible nor entirely a comic figure.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Thrice had she come, once comic and once tragic and once heroic.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Nature is as plain as one of her pigs, as commonplace, as comic, and as healthy.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • This would have been fair play, and comic; but the comedy should have ended by this time.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • That is why I elected to do comic sketches, and shall continue to do them.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of Murray Davenport » by Robert Neilson Stephens

Synonyms for comic

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