comicadjective
uk/ˈkɒm.ɪk/us/ˈkɑː.mɪk/B1 funny and making you want to laugh:
a comic actor/performance
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- "Modern Times" is a classic comedy starring Charlie Chaplin, the grandaddy of comic film actors.
- The speech had several comic touches.
- The BBC is moving into virgin territory by producing comic programmes of this type.
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Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- hysterical
- jocular
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- tongue
- witty
- wordplay
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comicnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɒm.ɪk/us/ˈkɑː.mɪk/comic noun [ C ] (BOOK)
A2 also mainly US comic book a magazine or book that contains a set of stories told in pictures with a small amount of writing
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Newspapers & magazines
- back copy
- broadsheet
- brochure
- circulation
- colour supplement
- daily paper
- editorial
- journal
- lad mag
- magazine
- manga
- organ
- reader
- serialize
- Sunday paper
- supermarket tabloid
- tabloid
- trade
- tribune
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comic noun [ C ] (PERSON)
someone who entertains people by telling jokes
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Entertainers in general
- acrobat
- bullfight
- clown
- compere
- duo
- emcee
- escape artist
- escort
- fire-eater
- fool
- geisha
- impresario
- jester
- joker
- mimic
- picador
- puppeteer
- roadshow
- showgirl
- snake charmer
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the comics
US the section of a newspaper where comic strips appear:
Dad read the front page while the kids read the comics.