comic

comic
adj
1. funny, droll, light, rich, humorous; zany, quizzical, comical, jocose, jocular; witty, facetious, waggish, Attic; punny, epigrammatic, Rhet. paronomastic; burlesque, (of verse) doggerel, vaudevillian, slapstick, farcical; nonsensical, absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous; amusing, laughable, risible, hilarious, side-splitting; silly, inane, foolish.
2. jocund, merry, blithe, blithesome, mirthful, jovial, jolly; gay, frolicsome, sportive, sporting, playful, prankish, puckish; frivolous, flippant.
n
3. comics
comic strip, funnies, cartoons, funny papers.
4. humorist, funnyman, jokesmith, wit. See comedian (defs.1, 2).

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