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comical

adj
/ˈkɒmɪkəl/UK/ˈkɑmɪkəl/US

Etymology

From Middle English comicalle, from Latin cōmicus + Middle English -alle (modern -al). By surface analysis, comic + -al.

  1. derived from -al
  2. derived from cōmicus
  3. inherited from comicalle

Definitions

  1. Originally, relating to comedy.

    • It was a comical performance.

  2. Funny, whimsically amusing.

    • The tutor excelled in comical scoldings.

  3. Laughable

    Laughable; ridiculous.

    • He's just put salt in his tea instead of sugar. What a comical error!

The neighborhood

Derived

comicality, comically, comicalness, heroicomical, semicomical, uncomical

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at comical. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01comical02whimsically03whimsical04whimsy05playfully06playful07humorous08funny

A definitional loop anchored at comical. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at comical

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA