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.
Part of speech: 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
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for comic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is comic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, comic is tagged as adjective.
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