adj
Meaning 1
Originally, relating to comedy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- It was a comical performance.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
comical
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmɪkəl/
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General-American: /ˈkɑmɪkəl/
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CMU ARPABET: K AA1 M IH0 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Funny, whimsically amusing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The tutor excelled in comical scoldings.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Laughable; ridiculous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He's just put salt in his tea instead of sugar. What a comical error!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
arousing or provoking laughter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls
- an amusing fellow
- a comic hat
- a comical look of surprise
- funny stories that made everybody laugh
- a very funny writer
- it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much
- a mirthful experience
- risible courtroom antics
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: amusing, comic, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English comicalle, from Latin cōmicus + Middle English -alle (modern -al). By surface analysis, comic + -al.
Across languages
Translations
73 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: камі́чны (kamíčny) — relating to comedy
- Bulgarian: коми́чен (komíčen) — relating to comedy
- Finnish: komedia- — relating to comedy
- Finnish: koominen — relating to comedy
- French: comique — relating to comedy
- German: komödisch — relating to comedy
- German: komödial — relating to comedy
- German: komisch — relating to comedy
- Hebrew: קוֹמִי (kómi) — relating to comedy
- Latvian: komisks — relating to comedy
- Latvian: komēdijas — relating to comedy
- Polish: komiczny — relating to comedy
- Portuguese: cómico — relating to comedy
- Portuguese: cômico — relating to comedy
- Russian: коми́ческий (komíčeskij) — relating to comedy
- Ukrainian: комі́чний (komíčnyj) — relating to comedy
- Belarusian: сме́шны (smjéšny) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Belarusian: заба́ўны (zabáwny) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Belarusian: паце́шны (pacjéšny) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Belarusian: камі́чны (kamíčny) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Bulgarian: сме́шен (sméšen) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Bulgarian: заба́вен (zabáven) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Dutch: grappig — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Dutch: komisch — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Dutch: amusant — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Finnish: huvittava — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Finnish: koominen — being funny, whimsically amusing
- German: komisch — being funny, whimsically amusing
- German: lustig — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Hebrew: קוֹמִי (kómi) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Hebrew: מַצְחִיק (matskhík) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Irish: barrúil — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Latvian: komisks — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Latvian: jocīgs — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Latvian: smieklīgs — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Latvian: humoristisks — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Norwegian Bokmål: komisk — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Norwegian Nynorsk: komisk — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Polish: śmieszny — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Polish: zabawny — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Polish: komiczny — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Portuguese: cómico — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Portuguese: cômico — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Russian: смешно́й (smešnój) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Russian: коми́чный (komíčnyj) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Russian: заба́вный (zabávnyj) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Russian: поте́шный (potéšnyj) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Spanish: cómico — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Ukrainian: смішни́й (smišnýj) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Ukrainian: поті́шний (potíšnyj) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Ukrainian: комі́чний (komíčnyj) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Welsh: digrif — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Yiddish: קאָמיש (komish) — being funny, whimsically amusing
- Bulgarian: шегови́т (šegovít) — being laughable, ridiculous
- Bulgarian: чуда́т (čudát) — being laughable, ridiculous
- Dutch: komisch — being laughable, ridiculous
- Dutch: lachwekkend — being laughable, ridiculous
- Dutch: hilarisch — being laughable, ridiculous
- Finnish: huvittava — being laughable, ridiculous
- Finnish: naurettava — being laughable, ridiculous
- German: lächerlich — being laughable, ridiculous
- Hebrew: מגוחך — being laughable, ridiculous
- Hebrew: מְגֻחָךְ (m'gukhákh) — being laughable, ridiculous
- Irish: barrúil — being laughable, ridiculous
- Norman: risibl'ye — being laughable, ridiculous
- Polish: komiczny — being laughable, ridiculous
- Portuguese: cómico — being laughable, ridiculous
- Portuguese: cômico — being laughable, ridiculous
- Scottish Gaelic: èibhinn — being laughable, ridiculous
- Scottish Gaelic: àbhachdach — being laughable, ridiculous
- Spanish: cómico — being laughable, ridiculous
- Ukrainian: смішни́й (smišnýj) — being laughable, ridiculous
- Yiddish: קאָמיש (komish) — being laughable, ridiculous