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Pronunciation:  'kâmikul

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  arousing or provoking laughter; "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"
 
 Synonyms: amusing, comic, funny, humorous, humourous, laughable, mirthful, risible
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Com"ic*al\, a.
1. Relating to comedy.

         They deny it to be tragical because its catastrophe
         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.

 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: absurd, broad, burlesque, comic, droll, farcical, foolish, funny, impish, ludicrous, mock-heroic, ridiculous, roguish, silly, slapstick, sportive, tragicomic, visible, waggish
 

 

 

 

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