more comic

adj.amusing

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Word Origin & History

late 14c., "of comedy in the dramatic sense," from Latin comicus "of comedy, represented in comedy, in comic style," from Greek komikos "of or pertaining to comedy," from komos (see comedy). Meaning "intentionally funny" first recorded 1791, and comedic (1630s) has since picked up the older sense of the word.

Something that is comic has comedy as its aim or origin; something is comical if the effect is comedy, whether intended or not.

Example Sentences formore comic

Nothing could be more comic than this chubby child, with her serious air.

There were other phases of that tearing-down that were less dramatic and more comic.

Not that she is more comic, but that she is more comprehensively true to life.

I will shake my head a little, and see if I can shake a more comic substitute out of it.

But whether there was not in your compositions more fire, and a more comic spirit, I will not determine.

After the more comic manifestations and the chilling of generous enthusiasm come subtler, darker deeds.

Nothing to an observer can be a more comic sight than the result produced on manners by their faithful study.

Betty did not find this very consoling, but I saw that the affair was more comic than tragic, and would end in nothing.

The more comic its expression the more horrible it will prove, being that of a corpse.

Manse, as we have said, is not more comic than heroic, a mother in that Sparta of the Covenant.