comic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to or characteristic of comedy

   comic hero

2. 2
   adj

   Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.

   comic genius

3. 3
   adj

   Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining.

   There is a quartet of comic musicians, who perform on instruments of an inconceivable bassness […]

4. 4
   adj

   Unintentionally humorous; amusing, ridiculous.

   As there was something excessively comique in the distress of the landlord and his wife […], I could not forbear staying a little to be amused with it.

5. 5
   noun

   A comedian.

   She started out as a joke-writer on the radio, and first performed as a comic at the ages of 30.

6. 6
   adj

   arousing or provoking laughter

7. 7
   noun

   a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts

8. 8
   adj

   Of or relating to comics or sequential art.

Etymology

From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).