Antonyms for more comic

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kom-ik

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒm ɪk

Definition of more 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.

adj amusing

Example sentences :

Nothing could be more comic than this chubby child, with her serious air.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

There were other phases of that tearing-down that were less dramatic and more comic.
Extract from : « The Romance of a Great Store » by Edward Hungerford

Not that she is more comic, but that she is more comprehensively true to life.
Extract from : « Old and New Masters » by Robert Lynd

I will shake my head a little, and see if I can shake a more comic substitute out of it.
Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens

But whether there was not in your compositions more fire, and a more comic spirit, I will not determine.
Extract from : « Dialogues of the Dead » by Lord Lyttelton

After the more comic manifestations and the chilling of generous enthusiasm come subtler, darker deeds.
Extract from : « Darkwater » by W. E. B. Du Bois

Nothing to an observer can be a more comic sight than the result produced on manners by their faithful study.
Extract from : « The Education of American Girls » by Anna Callender Brackett

Betty did not find this very consoling, but I saw that the affair was more comic than tragic, and would end in nothing.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

The more comic its expression the more horrible it will prove, being that of a corpse.
Extract from : « Soliloquies in England » by George Santayana

Manse, as we have said, is not more comic than heroic, a mother in that Sparta of the Covenant.
Extract from : « Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated » by Sir Walter Scott

Synonyms for more comic

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