COMICAL

amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

comical (comparative more comical, superlative most comical)

(archaic) Originally, relating to comedy.

Funny, whimsically amusing.

Laughable; ridiculous.

Synonyms

• See also funny

• (comedy): comic, comedic

Anagrams

• Climaco

Source: Wiktionary

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Com"ic*al, a.

1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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