comic

Universal Words adjective, noun adjective 1 amusing and making you laugh: a comic monologue / story * The play is both comic and tragic. * She can always be relied on to provide comic relief (= sth to make you relax and laugh) at a boring party. * He wore a red nose and novelty glasses for comic effect. 2 [onlybeforenoun] connected with COMEDY (= entertainment that is funny and that makes people laugh): a comic opera * a very fine comic actor * Woody Allen is a comic genius. noun 1 an entertainer who makes people laugh by telling jokes or funny stories SYNCOMEDIAN 2 (AmE also comic book) a magazine, especially for children, that tells stories through pictures 3 (the comics) [pl.] (AmE) the section of a newspaper that contains COMICSTRIPS