comedy
comedy is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy. With all the vivacity if comedy. Macaulay. Are come to play a pleasant comedy. Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurdity
- anticlimax
- awkward
- baroque
- bathos
- bear
- bizarre
- bombast
- bombastic
- buffoonery
- burlesque
- comical
- comicality
- commit
- contemptible
- dancing
- derisive
- doggerel
- droll
- drollery
- drollish
- eccentric
- eccentricity
- extravagance
- extravagant
- fanciful
- fantastic
- farce
- farcical
- fool
- frippery
- from
- fun
- funny
- gimcrack
- grotesque
- heroic
- inflated
- ironical
- laugh
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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