comic Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts
comedian.
adjective satellite arousing or provoking laughter
funny; risible; mirthful; amusing; laughable; comical.
- 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
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of comedy
- comic hero

L. comicus pertaining to comedy, Gr. : cf. F. comique. See Comedy.

Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.
I can not for the stage a drama lay, Tragic or comic, but thou writ'st the play. B. Jonson.
Causing mirth; ludicrous. "Comic shows." Shak.