comical : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: comical	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for comical
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
comical adj arousing or provoking laughter; "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" Synonym(s): amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Comical \Com"ical\, a. 1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrophe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. --Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical* story. [bd]Comical adventures.[b8] --Dryden. Syn: Humorous; laughable; funny. See {Droll}. -- {Com"ically}, adv. -- {Com"ic*al"ness}, n.