| Main Entry: | comic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny person, often professional |
Synonyms: |
banana, buffoon*, card*, clown, comedian, droll, funnyman, humorist, jester, joker, jokester, life of the party, million laughs, quipster, stand-up comic, stooge, top banana, wag, wit* |
| Notes: | comic means 'intended to be funny' while comical is 'funny unintentionally' |
Antonyms: |
tragedian |
| Main Entry: | comic/comical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amusing |
Synonyms: |
Mickey Mouse, absurd, batty, boffo, camp*, comical, crazy, dippy, diverting, dizzy, droll, entertaining, facetious, farcical, flaky*, fool, foolheaded, for grins, freaky, funny, gelastic, goofus, goofy, gump, horse's tail, humorous, ironic, jerky, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, light, loony, ludicrous, nutty, off the wall, priceless, ridiculous, risible, schtick, screwy, side-splitting, silly, wacky, waggish, whimsical, witty |
Antonyms: |
sad, serious, sober, solemn, tragic, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | buffoon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clownlike person |
Synonyms: |
antic, bozo, clown, comedian, comic, droll, fool, harlequin, jester, joker, merry-andrew, wag, zany |
| Main Entry: | burlesque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | farcical |
Synonyms: |
caricatural, comic, ironical, ludicrous, mock, mocking, parodic, satirical, travestying |
| Main Entry: | clown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | joking person |
Synonyms: |
antic, buffoon, comedian, comic, cut-up, dolt, droll, farceur, fool, funnyperson, funster, gagman, gagster, harlequin, humorist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, life of the party, madcap, merry-andrew, merrymaker, mime, mountebank, mummer, picador, pierrot, prankster, punch, punchinello, quipster, ribald, wag, wisecracker, wit*, zany* |
| Main Entry: | comedian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny person, often professional |
Synonyms: |
actor, banana, card*, clown, comic, cutup, droll, entertainer, farceur, humorist, jester, joker, jokester, laugh, merry-andrew, million laughs, quipster, stand-up comic, stooge, top banana, wag, wisecracker, wit*, zany* |
| Main Entry: | dramatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exciting, moving |
Synonyms: |
affecting, breathtaking, climactic, comic, effective, electrifying, emotional, expressive, farcical, histrionic, impressive, melodramatic, powerful, sensational, startling, striking, sudden, suspenseful, tense, theatrical, thespian, thrilling, tragic, tragicomic, vivid |
Antonyms: |
comedic, normal, ordinary, undramatic, unexciting, unmoving, usual |
| Main Entry: | droll |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amusing, farcical |
Synonyms: |
absurd, camp, campy, clownish, comic, comical, crack-up, diverting, eccentric, entertaining, for grins, funny, gagged up, gelastic, humorous, jocular, joshing, laffer, laughable, ludicrous, odd, preposterous, quaint, queer, quizzical, ridiculous, riot, risible, waggish, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
dramatic, serious, traumatic, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | facetious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tongue-in-cheek, kidding |
Synonyms: |
amusing, blithe, capering, clever, comic, comical, droll, dry, fanciful, farcical, flip*, flippant, frivolous, funny, gay, humorous, indecorous, ironic, irreverent, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, ludicrous, merry, not serious, playful, pleasant, pulling one's leg, punning, putting one on, ridiculous, salty, sarcastic, satirical, smart, sportive, sprightly, waggish, whimsical, wisecracking, witty, wry |
Antonyms: |
formal, grave, serious, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | farcical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absurd |
Synonyms: |
amusing, camp, campy, comic, comical, derisory, diverting, droll, for grins, funny, gelastic, joshing, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, outrageous, preposterous, ridiculous, risible, slapstick, stupid |
Antonyms: |
real, reasonable, sensible, serious, tragic |