Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun comic
1 sense of comic
Sense 1
comedian, comic -- (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)
=> performer, performing artist -- (an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience)
Antonyms of adj comic
1 of 2 senses of comic
Sense 1
amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
INDIRECT (VIA humorous) -> humorless, humourless, unhumorous -- (lacking humor; "it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"- Truman Capote)
Similarity of adj comic
2 senses of comic
Sense 1
amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
=> humorous (vs. humorless), humourous -- (full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein")
Sense 2
comic -- (of or relating to or characteristic of comedy; "comic hero")