| comic | | |
| n. (person) | 1. comedian, comic | a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts. |
| ~ merry andrew, buffoon, clown, goof, goofball | a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior. |
| ~ comedienne | a female comedian. |
| ~ gagman, standup comedian | a comedian who uses gags. |
| ~ joker, jokester | a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes. |
| ~ performer, performing artist | an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience. |
| ~ top banana | the leading comedian in a burlesque show. |
| ~ benjamin kubelsky, jack benny, benny | United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor (1894-1974). |
| ~ burns, george burns, nathan birnbaum | United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996). |
| ~ sid caesar, sidney caesar, caesar | United States comedian who pioneered comedy television shows (born 1922). |
| ~ chaplin, charlie chaplin, sir charles spencer chaplin | English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977). |
| ~ durante, jimmy durante | United States comedian remembered for his large nose and hoarse voice (1893-1980). |
| ~ fields, w. c. fields, william claude dukenfield | United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946). |
| ~ hardy, oliver hardy | United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957). |
| ~ alfred hawthorne, benny hill, hill | risque English comedian (1925-1992). |
| ~ bob hope, leslie townes hope, hope | United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003). |
| ~ buster keaton, joseph francis keaton, keaton | United States comedian and actor in silent films noted for his acrobatic skills and deadpan face (1895-1966). |
| ~ harry lauder, lauder, sir harry maclennan lauder | Scottish ballad singer and music hall comedian (1870-1950). |
| ~ arthur stanley jefferson laurel, stan laurel, laurel | United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965). |
| ~ steve martin, martin | United States actor and comedian (born in 1945). |
| ~ groucho, julius marx, marx | United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1890-1977). |
| ~ chico, leonard marx, marx | United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1891-1961). |
| ~ arthur marx, harpo, marx | United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1893-1964). |
| ~ herbert marx, marx, zeppo | United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1901-1979). |
| ~ dudley moore, dudley stuart john moore, moore | English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935). |
| adj. | 2. 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, humourous | full of or characterized by humor.; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" |
| adj. (pertain) | 3. comic | of or relating to or characteristic of comedy.; "comic hero" |
| ~ drama | the literary genre of works intended for the theater. |
| comical | | |
| funny | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. funny, funny remark, funny story, good story | an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line).; "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny" |
| ~ gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh | a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" |
| adj. | 2. curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular | beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" |
| ~ strange, unusual | being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird.; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" |
| adj. | 3. fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious | not as expected.; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ questionable | subject to question.; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin" |
| adj. | 4. funny | experiencing odd bodily sensations.; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest" |
| ~ ill, sick | affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" |
| hilarious | | |
| adj. | 1. hilarious, screaming, uproarious | marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter.; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories" |
| ~ humorous, humourous | full of or characterized by humor.; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" |
| humorous | | |
| adj. | 1. humorous, humourous | full of or characterized by humor.; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" |
| ~ bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek | cleverly amusing in tone.; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice" |
| ~ buffoonish, clownish, clownlike, zany | like a clown.; "a buffoonish walk"; "a clownish face"; "a zany sense of humor" |
| ~ comic, comical, funny, risible, amusing, laughable, mirthful | 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" |
| ~ droll | comical in an odd or whimsical manner.; "a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor" |
| ~ ironic, wry, dry, ironical | humorously sarcastic or mocking.; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit" |
| ~ farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous | broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce.; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair" |
| ~ gilbertian | wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas.; "a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings" |
| ~ hilarious, uproarious, screaming | marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter.; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories" |
| ~ jesting, jocose, jocular, joking | characterized by jokes and good humor. |
| ~ killing, sidesplitting | very funny.; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics" |
| ~ seriocomic, seriocomical | mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating.; "a seriocomic novel" |
| ~ slapstick | characterized by horseplay and physical action.; "slapstick style of humor" |
| ~ tragicomical, tragicomic | having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics.; "her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure" |
| ~ waggish | witty or joking.; "Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer" |
| ~ witty | combining clever conception and facetious expression.; "his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent" |
| ~ pleasing | giving pleasure and satisfaction.; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance" |
| jocular | | |
| adj. | 1. jesting, jocose, jocular, joking | characterized by jokes and good humor. |
| ~ humorous, humourous | full of or characterized by humor.; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" |
| adv. | 2. jocosely, jocular | with humor.; "they tried to deal with this painful subject jocularly" |
| laughable | | |
| adj. | 1. absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous | incongruous;inviting ridicule.; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" |
| ~ foolish | devoid of good sense or judgment.; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision" |
| ludicrous | | |
| adj. | 1. farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous | broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce.; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair" |
| ~ humorous, humourous | full of or characterized by humor.; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" |
| ridiculous | | |
| adj. | 1. pathetic, ridiculous, silly | inspiring scornful pity.; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years" |
| ~ undignified | lacking dignity. |
| humour | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. humor, humour, mood, temper | a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling.; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" |
| ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
| ~ peeve | an annoyed or irritated mood. |
| ~ sulk, sulkiness | a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal.; "stayed home in a sulk" |
| ~ amiability, good humor, good humour, good temper | a cheerful and agreeable mood. |
| ~ ill humor, ill humour, distemper | an angry and disagreeable mood. |
| n. (communication) | 2. humor, humour, wit, witticism, wittiness | a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter. |
| ~ subject matter, content, message, substance | what a communication that is about something is about. |
| ~ jeu d'esprit | a witty comment or writing. |
| ~ bon mot, mot | a clever remark. |
| ~ esprit de l'escalier | a witty remark that occurs to you too late. |
| ~ pungency, bite | wit having a sharp and caustic quality.; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire" |
| ~ caustic remark, irony, sarcasm, satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn.; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own" |
| ~ repartee | adroitness and cleverness in reply. |
| ~ gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh | a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" |
| ~ caricature, impersonation, imitation | a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect. |
| ~ cartoon, sketch | a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine. |
| ~ fun, sport, play | verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously).; "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport" |
| ~ ribaldry | ribald humor. |
| ~ topper | an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before. |
| ~ libation | (facetious) a serving of an alcoholic beverage. |
| ~ roaster | a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment).; "the honoree gave his roasters as good as he got" |
| n. (body) | 3. humor, humour | (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state.; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile" |
| ~ body substance | the substance of the body. |
| ~ physiology | the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms. |
| ~ antiquity | the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe. |
| ~ dark ages, middle ages | the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. |
| n. (body) | 4. bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance | the liquid parts of the body. |
| ~ body substance | the substance of the body. |
| ~ aqueous humor, aqueous humour | the limpid fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens. |
| ~ vitreous body, vitreous humor, vitreous humour | the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball. |
| ~ endolymph | the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear. |
| ~ perilymph | the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear. |
| ~ ecf, extracellular fluid | liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.; "the body normally has about 15 quarts of extracellular fluid" |
| ~ intracellular fluid | liquid contained inside the cell membranes (usually containing dissolved solutes). |
| ~ succus, juice | any of several liquids of the body.; "digestive juices" |
| ~ karyolymph | a clear liquid in the cell nucleus in which the nucleolus and chromatin and other structures are dispersed. |
| ~ milk | produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young. |
| ~ amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, waters | the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion.; "before a woman gives birth her waters break" |
| ~ blood | the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets.; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions" |
| ~ blood serum, serum | an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates. |
| ~ chyle | a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats. |
| ~ lymph | a thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle; is conveyed to the blood stream by lymphatic vessels. |
| ~ come, cum, ejaculate, semen, seminal fluid, seed | the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract. |
| ~ ink | dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods. |
| ~ secretion | a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell. |
| ~ black bile, melancholy | a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy. |
| ~ yellow bile, choler | a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger. |
| ~ lochia | substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth. |
| ~ sanies, festering, ichor, purulence, pus, suppuration | a fluid product of inflammation. |
| ~ cerebrospinal fluid, spinal fluid | clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain; fills and protects cavities in the brain and spinal cord. |
| n. (attribute) | 5. humor, humour | the quality of being funny.; "I fail to see the humor in it" |
| ~ quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone.; "the quality of mercy is not strained" |
| ~ comicality | the quality of being comical. |
| n. (attribute) | 6. humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humour | the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous.; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" |
| ~ playfulness, fun | a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement.; "her playfulness surprised me"; "he was fun to be with" |
| v. (communication) | 7. humor, humour | put into a good mood. |
| ~ pander, gratify, indulge | yield (to); give satisfaction to. |
| laugh | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. laugh, laughter | the sound of laughing. |
| ~ utterance, vocalization | the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication. |
| ~ cachinnation | loud convulsive laughter. |
| ~ cackle | a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle. |
| ~ chortle, chuckle | a soft partly suppressed laugh. |
| ~ giggle | a foolish or nervous laugh. |
| ~ belly laugh, guffaw | a burst of deep loud hearty laughter. |
| ~ ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw, horselaugh | a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing. |
| ~ snicker, snigger, snort | a disrespectful laugh. |
| ~ titter | a nervous restrained laugh. |
| n. (communication) | 2. laugh | a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing.; "his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision" |
| ~ facial expression, facial gesture | a gesture executed with the facial muscles. |
| n. (communication) | 3. gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh | a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" |
| ~ humor, wit, witticism, wittiness, humour | a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter. |
| ~ gag line, punch line, tag line, laugh line | the point of a joke or humorous story. |
| ~ howler, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow, belly laugh, riot, scream | a joke that seems extremely funny. |
| ~ blue joke, blue story, dirty joke, dirty story | an indelicate joke. |
| ~ ethnic joke | a joke at the expense of some ethnic group. |
| ~ funny, funny remark, funny story, good story | an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line).; "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny" |
| ~ in-joke | a joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people. |
| ~ one-liner | a one-line joke. |
| ~ shaggy dog story | a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness. |
| ~ sick joke | a joke in bad taste. |
| ~ sight gag, visual joke | a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie). |
| v. (body) | 4. express joy, express mirth, laugh | produce laughter. |
| ~ bray | laugh loudly and harshly. |
| ~ bellylaugh | laugh a deep, hearty laugh. |
| ~ howl, roar | laugh unrestrainedly and heartily. |
| ~ snicker, snigger | laugh quietly. |
| ~ giggle, titter | laugh nervously.; "The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom" |
| ~ crack up, break up | laugh unrestrainedly. |
| ~ cackle | emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing. |
| ~ guffaw, laugh loudly | laugh boisterously. |
| ~ chortle, chuckle, laugh softly | laugh quietly or with restraint. |
| ~ convulse | be overcome with laughter. |
| ~ cachinnate | laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way. |
| ~ express emotion, express feelings | give verbal or other expression to one's feelings. |
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