Comedy

Noun

 * 1)  A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone
 * 2)  The genre of such works
 * 3) entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance
 * 4) the art of composing comedy
 * 5) a humorous event

Adjectives for Comedy
brilliant; pleasing; charming; restrained intelligent; rich; social; suave; earnest ironic; clever; satirical; light; sardonic; fluffy; riotous; farcical; roaring; buoyant high; tiresome; wry; ineffective; sickly alleged; fantastic; absurd; lamentable; tragic; mournful; burlesque; macabre; amateur; romantic; artificial; plain; fancy; veritable; crisp; wary; lascivious; admirable; sentimental; slapstick; optimistic; frivolous; robust; complicated; poetic; eccentric.

Verbs for Comedy
applaud—; conclude—; dramatize—; enact—; indulge in—; perform—; present—; produce—; revel in—; write—; —burlesques; —characterizes; —delights; —depicts; —enlivens; —entertains; —lightens; —relishes; —satirizes.

Antonyms for Comedy
drama; tragedy

Derived terms
comedic; comedically; comedy of errors; situation comedy; sitcom; comic; comedian;

Thesaurus
comic, burlesque, burletta, camp, cap and bells, caricature, comedie bouffe, comedie larmoyante, comedie rosse, comedietta, comedy ballet, comedy of humors, comedy of ideas, comedy of intrigue, comedy of manners, comedy of situation, comedy relief, comic muse, comic opera, comic relief, comicality, comicalness, coxcomb, dark comedy, domestic comedy, drollery, drollness, dry wit, esprit, exode, farce, farce comedy, funniness, genteel comedy, harlequinade, high camp, humor, humorousness, irony, lampoon, light comedy, low camp, low comedy, mime, motley, musical, musical comedy, nimble wit, opera buffa, parody, pleasantry, pretty wit, quick wit, raw comedy, ready wit, realistic comedy, romantic comedy, salt, sarcasm, satire, satyr play, savor of wit, sentimental comedy, situation comedy, slapstick, slapstick comedy, slapstick humor, sock, squib, subtle wit, tragicomedy, travesty, visual humor, wit, wittiness

Alternative forms

 * comedie
 * comœdie
 * comœdy

Etymology
First attested in 1374. From comédie: <  comoedia: <  κωμῳδία: < κῶμος: + either ᾠδή: or ἀοιδός:, both from ἀείδω:.

Translations

 * Catalan: comèdia
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 * Croatian:
 * Hebrew: קומדיה
 * Latin: comoedia


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 * Belarusian: камедыя
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 * French:
 * Georgian: კომედია
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 * Hebrew: קומדיה
 * Hungarian: vígjáték,
 * Indonesian: lawak
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 * Latin:
 * Latvian: komēdija
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 * Novial: komedie
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 * Romanian: comedie
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 * Sundanese: bodor
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 * Tajik: мазҳака
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 * Ukrainian: комедія
 * Volapük: fredadramat


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 * Hebrew: קומדיה


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 * Sundanese: bodor