COMIC
What does "COMIC" mean?
Causing or relating to laughter and amusement.
Meanings
- Funny; intended to or tending to cause laughter. The play's comic timing kept the whole room laughing.
- A comedian; a performer who tells jokes. The young comic killed during his five-minute set.
- A magazine or strip telling a story through sequential drawings. He spent his allowance on a stack of old comics.
Did you know?
- 'Comic' traces back to the Greek 'komos' - a wild, wine-fueled revel for the god Dionysus - which is also the buried root of 'comedy.'
Word origin
From Greek 'komikos' (relating to comedy), from 'komos' (a revel or merrymaking), via Latin 'comicus' into English.
Remember it
COMIC starts like 'come in' - the invitation to a laugh; and it shares a root with 'comedy.'
A little poem
He times the silence, then he lets it break -
the laugh he plants is harder than the ache.
couplet
Wordplay
- A comic walked into a library and asked for a book on comic timing. The librarian said: wait here. Then said nothing for a long while.
What it teaches
Comedy is precision wearing a careless smile - the easy laugh hides the hardest craft.
Quick facts
What does COMIC mean?
Causing or relating to laughter and amusement.
Is COMIC a valid word?
Yes — COMIC is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is COMIC?
COMIC has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does COMIC come from?
From Greek 'komikos' (relating to comedy), from 'komos' (a revel or merrymaking), via Latin 'comicus' into English.
What can COMIC teach us?
Comedy is precision wearing a careless smile - the easy laugh hides the hardest craft.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.