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Comic   /kˈɑmɪk/   Listen
adjective
Comic  adj.  
1.
Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy. "I can not for the stage a drama lay, Tragic or comic, but thou writ'st the play."
2.
Causing mirth; ludicrous. "Comic shows."


noun
Comic  n.  A comedian. (Obs.)





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"Comic" Quotes from Famous Books



... vexed. The words uttered were words of rebuke, but the odd manner in which they were said and the humorous twinkle in the minister's eyes did not well agree. He waited a moment for her answer, still holding her hand and looking down into her face with a serio-comic expression quite unlike a clergyman, until Dexie ...
— Miss Dexie - A Romance of the Provinces • Stanford Eveleth
... scene, character succeeded character, comic and ridiculous like the bailiff and Grenicheux, imposing and winsome like the marquis and Germaine. The audience laughed heartily at the slap delivered by Gaspard and intended for the coward Grenicheux, which was received by the grave bailiff, ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal
... to know how "Jack and the Beanstalk" goes. I have a notion from a notice—a favourable notice, however—which I saw in Galignani, that Webster has let down the comic business. ...
— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 • Charles Dickens
... harness. She was the first hog that father bought to stock the farm, and we boys regarded her as a very wonderful beast. In a few weeks she had a lot of pigs, and of all the queer, funny, animal children we had yet seen, none amused us more. They were so comic in size and shape, in their gait and gestures, their merry sham fights, and the false alarms they got up for the fun of scampering back to their mother and begging her in most persuasive little squeals to lie down and ...
— The Story of My Boyhood and Youth • John Muir
... Paris most addicted to private theatricals. This reproduction of a forgotten play, with its characters attired in the costume of the period in which the play was placed, had had great success, a success due largely to the excellence of the costumes. In the comic parts the dressing had been purposely exaggerated, but Madame de Nailles, who played the part of a great coquette, would not have been dressed in character had she not tried to make herself ...
— Jacqueline, v1 • Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)


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