What does comical mean?

Definitions for comical
ˈkɒm ɪ kəlcom·i·cal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risibleadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. comicaladjective

    Originally, relating to comedy.

    It was a comical performance

  2. comicaladjective

    Being funny, whimsically amusing.

    The tutor cruelly excelled in comical scoldings

  3. comicaladjective

    Being laughable, ridiculous.

    What a comical error!

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Comicaladjective

    Etymology: comicus, Latin.

    The greatest resemblance of our author is in the familiar stile and pleasing way of relating comical adventures of that nature. John Dryden, Fables, Preface.

    Something so comical in the voice and gestures, that a man can hardly forbear being pleased. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

    That all might appear to be knit up in a comical conclusion, the duke’s daughter was afterwards joined in marriage to the lord Lisle. John Hayward.

    They deny it to be tragical, because its catastrophe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. John Gay.

ChatGPT

  1. comical

    Comical refers to anything that is amusing, funny, or intended to cause laughter or amusement. It can apply to a situation, person, movie, book, or other forms of expression where humor is prominently featured.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Comicaladjective

    relating to comedy

  2. Comicaladjective

    exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of comical in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of comical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of comical in a Sentence

  1. Flannery O'Connor:

    Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

  2. Czech President Milos Zeman:

    I fully support the idea of a European border guard, but it seems to me to be comical if it has 1,500 members. If every single EU country sent 500 people to this, then you have 14,000 soldiers.

  3. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.:

    It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry—or laugh.

  4. Mark Alston:

    A lot of us know intuitively that masks in restaurants are fairly comical and mostly theater, because as soon as you sit down at the table, you have to take off your mask to eat and drink.

  5. Mike Marinella:

    Barnes’ comments are comical, he has repeatedly spread conspiracy theories and denied election results himself.

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Translations for comical

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

  • комичен, шеговит, чудат, смешен, забавенBulgarian
  • àbhachdach, èibhinnScottish Gaelic
  • jocīgs, komēdijas, komisks, smieklīgs, humoristisksLatvian
  • lachwekkend, komisch, hilarisch, amusant, grappigDutch

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