comedic

Also co·me·di·cal

[kuh-mee-dik, -med-ik]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or of the nature of comedy.

Other Word Forms

• comedically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of comedic¹

1630–40; < Latin cōmoedicus < Greek kōmōidikós, equivalent to kōmōid ( ía ) comedy + -ikos -ic

Example Sentences

But, he added, the challenge was to transform the cultural touchstone into a "recurring comedic gimmick".

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Though Anne’s background was in drama, Stiller convinced her to use her natural comedic chops in their two-person show, playing up their differences for New York’s melting pot audiences.

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Back in the day, Penn, now 70, and Teller, 77, had intended to reimagine magic by bringing a comedic element into it.

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YouTube more recently spawned a subgenre now popular on TikTok in which video creators stop and talk to strangers on the street in hopes of generating surprisingly comedic or provocative content.

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When she loses her cycle, she is forced to run up the helix of a parking garage at normal human speed, giving a pathetic comedic element to someone who ought to be terrifying.

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Related Words

• amusing 
• comic 
• funny