Word Meanings - COMICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden. Syn. -- Humorous;

Additional info about word: COMICAL

1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden. Syn. -- Humorous; laughable; funny. See Droll. -- Com"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Com"ic*al"ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMICAL)

• Droll
• Whimsical
• comical
• odd
• queer
• amusing
• laughable
• funny
• comic
• fantastic
• farcical
• Funny
• Sportive
• droll
• humorous
• jocose
• ridiculous
• ludicrous
• diverting
• Ludicrous
• Ridiculous

Related words: (words related to COMICAL)

• FANTASTIC
  1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• FARCICAL
  Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.
• QUEERISH
  Rather queer; somewhat singular.
• COMICAL
  1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden. Syn. -- Humorous;
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• JOCOSE
  Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts. Syn.
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• LAUGHABLE
  Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene. Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv.
• AMUSE
  1. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could
• HUMOROUSLY
  1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily.
• DIVERTING
  Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• FANTASTICLY
  Fantastically.
• FANTASTICISM
  The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.
• COMICRY
  The power of exciting mirth; comicalness. H. Giles.
• AMUSING
  Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story. -- A*mus"ing*ly, adv.
• FANTASTICAL
  Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
• DIVERTISSEMENT
  A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.
• DIVERTIMENTO
  ) A light and pleasing composition.
• RAMUSCULE
  A small ramus, or branch.
• HIPPOPOTAMUS
  A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body,
• INDIVERTIBLE
  Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.
• CAMUS
  See CAMIS
• DROLL
  Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical.