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noun

a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.

a genre of comedy represented by such works.

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How to use romantic comedy in a sentence

Growing up, she loved romantic comedies like You’ve Got Mail, 10 Things I Hate About You and 13 Going on 30.
Casey McQuiston Is Writing the Queer Rom-Coms She’s Always Wanted to Read|Annabel Gutterman|May 26, 2021|Time
A trope in romantic comedies is that storybook ending where every end is tied up in a bow and it feels great because they lived happily ever after.
Comedian Patti Harrison Has Her First Leading Role—But She’s Not Looking to Stop Goofing Around|Suyin Haynes|May 14, 2021|Time
This comedy-superhero-adventure hybrid is at its best when it tosses the formula completely and gives in to the idea that a superhero movie can really be anything, even a romantic comedy.
Even the Subpar Superhero Comedy Thunder Force Can't Fully Extinguish Melissa McCarthy's Gifts|Stephanie Zacharek|April 9, 2021|Time
Sure, we had 2018’s “Love Simon,” but that was more a less a teen romantic comedy.
‘The Birdcage’ turns 25|Brock Thompson|March 26, 2021|Washington Blade

This might not be especially important if you’re watching a romantic comedy, but if you’re listening to music or gaming, it’s pretty essential.
Best computer speakers: Make music, video chats, and more a whole lot clearer|Jeremy Helligar|January 12, 2021|Popular-Science
This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Was that a transitional moment for you from music to comedy?
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
You write a lot about how you were a jerk or a snob when it came to comedy or film.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire|William O’Connor|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Decades ago, the writer-director wrote an episode of the animated comedy that never was.
Here’s the Lost Judd Apatow ‘Simpsons’ Episode, Penned by Judd Apatow|Asawin Suebsaeng|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The memoir follows Oswalt from 1995 to 1999 as he was starting out on his comedy career in Los Angeles.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire|William O’Connor|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
"It's always the way with them," sighed Miss Grains, who suffered from a complication of romantic tendency and very tight stays.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Thereafter he ran away from school twice, having been seized with a romantic and irresistible desire to see and shoot a lion!
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
Did he at all intrench upon your Sovereignty in Verse, because he had now and then written a Comedy that succeeded?
A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope|Colley Cibber
It was the well-known extension en seconde; a favourite trick among Parisian swordsmen of the Romantic school.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
If she had had "some smashing love affair," as the more romantic Flora suggested, so much the better.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton