Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Provoking mirth or amusement; funny.
- adjective Of or relating to comedy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to comedy.
- Hence Exciting mirth; diverting; sportive; droll; funny: said of persons and things: as, a comical fellow; a comical story; a comical predicament.
- Given to revelry or dissipation; licentious.
- Strange; extraordinary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to comedy.
- adjective Exciting mirth; droll; laughable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Originally, relating to
comedy . - adjective Being
funny , whimsically amusing. - adjective Being laughable,
ridiculous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective arousing or provoking laughter
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Examples
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On April 20 he wrote an essay about what he calls the comical issues of the Summit of the Americas and then on 21st wrote about "serious issues."
Canada Free Press 2009
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On April 20 he wrote an essay about what he calls the comical issues of the Summit of the Americas and then on 21st wrote about "serious issues."
Canada Free Press 2009
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On April 20 he wrote an essay about what he calls the comical issues of the Summit of the Americas and then on 21st wrote about "serious issues."
Canada Free Press 2009
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You can certainly take issue with the term comical but I don’t think its sufficient evidence of being mean spirited considering the mainstream media and gibbs have both had to clean up after Biden’s gaffes.
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What makes my error even more comical is that I innocently inferred that the industrious and opportunistic (in a positive sense) Europeans who became refugees to France during the turmoil of the Algerian independence movement had somehow contributed to the urban squalor I observed in La Rose which was about as far from the truth as one could venture.
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What makes my error even more comical is that I innocently inferred that the industrious and opportunistic (in a positive sense) Europeans who became refugees to France during the turmoil of the Algerian independence movement had somehow contributed to the urban squalor I observed in La Rose which was about as far from the truth as one could venture.
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What makes my error even more comical is that I innocently inferred that the industrious and opportunistic (in a positive sense) Europeans who became refugees to France during the turmoil of the Algerian independence movement had somehow contributed to the urban squalor I observed in La Rose which was about as far from the truth as one could venture.
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What makes my error even more comical is that I innocently inferred that the industrious and opportunistic (in a positive sense) Europeans who became refugees to France during the turmoil of the Algerian independence movement had somehow contributed to the urban squalor I observed in La Rose which was about as far from the truth as one could venture.
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What makes my error even more comical is that I innocently inferred that the industrious and opportunistic (in a positive sense) Europeans who became refugees to France during the turmoil of the Algerian independence movement had somehow contributed to the urban squalor I observed in La Rose which was about as far from the truth as one could venture.
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They devised "mixed triples," fell in comical positions, and made wild shots.
intertribal: Do you come from the land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? intertribal 2010
hernesheir commented on the word comical
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January 21, 2013