Dictionary entry

Comical

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Com″ic‐al (?), 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. “Comical adventures.” Dryden.

Syn. — Humorous; laughable; funny. See Droll.

— Com″ic‐al‐ly, adv. — Com″ic‐al″ness, n.