what does comic mean?
COMIC as NOUN
- Meaning
- a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts
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Hypernyms(s) comic is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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COMIC as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- arousing or provoking laughter
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- 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 laughab
Similar To
- Meaning
- of or relating to or characteristic of comedy
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