Hypertext Webster Gateway: "comical"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Comical \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
comical
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" [syn: {amusing}, {comic}, {funny}, {laughable},
{mirthful}, {risible}]
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