be comic
Frequency: 8.025.5 per million words
Used to describe something or someone as having the quality of being funny or amusing.
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- Many of the scenes in the book are richly comic.
- His attempts to fix the leaky faucet were almost comic.
- The film's ending is darkly comic, leaving the audience unsettled.
- Without intending to, the politician's serious speech was unintentionally comic.
- The situation would have been comic if the consequences hadn't been so severe.
- There is a fine line between a character being tragic and being comic.
- The play promises to be wonderfully comic, with a star-studded cast.
- Her exaggerated facial expressions were what made the performance so comic.
- It's amazing how he can be so comic without saying a single word.
- What is truly comic about the whole affair is the sheer absurdity of it all.