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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. arousing or provoking laughter;
- Example: "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"
- Example: "an amusing fellow"
- Example: "a comic hat"
- Example: "a comical look of surprise"
- Example: "funny stories that made everybody laugh"
- Example: "a very funny writer"
- Example: "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"
- Example: "a mirthful experience"
- Example: "risible courtroom antics"
[syn: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Comical \Com"ic*al\, a.
   1. Relating to comedy.
      [1913 Webster]

            They deny it to be tragical because its catastrophe
            is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted
            comical.                              --Gay.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
        [1913 Webster]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

19 Moby Thesaurus words for "comical":
   absurd, broad, burlesque, comic, droll, farcical, foolish, funny,
   impish, ludicrous, mock-heroic, ridiculous, roguish, silly,
   slapstick, sportive, tragicomic, visible, waggish