comic as a noun: - 1
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comic
noun
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A professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts.
synonym: comedian.
Dutch: comediant, geinponem, grapjas, grappenmaker, hansworst, harlekijn, humorist, joker, komiek, komiekeling, leukerd, lolbroek, paljas, pias, pierewiet, polichinel, potsenmaker, spuiter ... show more
Polish: aktor komiczny, komik
adjective
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Arousing or provoking laughter:
— A comic hat.
— A comical look of surprise.
synonyms: amusing, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible.
Roget 842:
witty,
attic;
quick-witted,
nimble-witted;
smart;
jocular,
jocose,
humorous;
facetious,
waggish,
whimsical;
kidding,
joking,
puckish;
playful
etc.
840;
merry and wise;
pleasant,
sprightly,
light,
spirituel†,
sparkling,
epigrammatic,
full of point,
ben trovato [It];
comic
etc.
853.
zany,
madcap.
funny,
amusing
etc.
(amusement)
840.
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Roget 599:
dramatic;
theatric,
theatrical;
scenic,
histrionic,
comic,
tragic,
buskined†,
farcical,
tragicomic,
melodramatic,
operatic;
stagy.
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Of or relating to or characteristic of comedy.
Polish: komediowy
Moby thesaurus: amusing, animated cartoon, antic, banana, broad, burlesque, burlesquer, camp, campy, caricature, caricaturist, cartoon, clever, clown, comedian, comedienne, comic book, comic strip, comical, comics, cutup, droll, epigrammatist, facetious, fantastic, farcer, farceur, farceuse, farcical, farcist, funnies, funny, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, genteel comedian, grotesque, hilarious, hoke comic, humorist, humorous, ironist, jester, jocose, jocular, joker, jokesmith, jokester, lampooner, light, light comedian, low comedian, ludicrous, madcap, mirthful, mock-heroic, mocking, parodist, prankster, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, ridiculing, ridiculous, satirist, slapstick, slapstick comedian, stand-up comic, tragicomic, visible, wag, waggish, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, witty, zany ... show more.
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