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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts;
[syn: comedian, comic]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. arousing or provoking laughter;
- Example: "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"
- Example: "an amusing fellow"
- Example: "a comic hat"
- Example: "a comical look of surprise"
- Example: "funny stories that made everybody laugh"
- Example: "a very funny writer"
- Example: "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"
- Example: "a mirthful experience"
- Example: "risible courtroom antics"
[syn: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible]

2. of or relating to or characteristic of comedy;
- Example: "comic hero"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Comic \Com"ic\ (k[o^]m"[i^]k), a. [L. comicus pertaining to
   comedy, Gr. kwmiko`s: cf. F. comique. See Comedy.]
   1. Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.
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            I can not for the stage a drama lay,
            Tragic or comic, but thou writ'st the play. --B.
                                                  Jonson.
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   2. Causing mirth; ludicrous. "Comic shows." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Comic \Com"ic\, n.
   A comedian. [Obs.] --Steele.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

comic
    adj 1: arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a
           steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing
           fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise";
           "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny
           writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt
           so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom
           antics" [syn: amusing, comic, comical, funny,
           laughable, mirthful, risible]
    2: of or relating to or characteristic of comedy; "comic hero"
    n 1: a professional performer who tells jokes and performs
         comical acts [syn: comedian, comic]