comic

Forms

1.Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
- How often do you read comic books?
- I often read comic books in my spare time at work.
2.Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining.
- How often do you read comic books?
- I often read comic books in my spare time at work.
3.Unintentionally humorous; amusing, ridiculous.
- As there was something excessively comique in the distress of the landlord and his wife […], I could not forbear staying a little to be amused with it.
4.Of or relating to comics or sequential art.
- How often do you read comic books?
- I often read comic books in my spare time at work.

1.A comedian.
- She started out as a joke-writer on the radio, and first performed as a comic at the ages of 30.
2.A children's magazine.
3.A story composed of drawn images arranged in a sequence, usually with textual captions; a comic book.

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From Latin comicus

From Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”)

From κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).