词汇 | comical |
释义 | comical adjective uk /ˈkɒm.ɪ.kəl/ us /ˈkɑː.mɪ.kəl/ funny in a strange or silly way: 古怪可笑的;滑稽的 He looked so comical in that hat.他戴着那顶帽子看上去真滑稽。 Compare amusing funnyadjective laughable causing laughter funnyShe told me a funny story about Max. amusingI gave her an article that I thought she would find amusing. humorousShe wrote a humorous account of her teenage years. hilariousIt's the most hilarious comedy on television. hystericalI've just read his autobiography - it's absolutely hysterical. Humour & humorous amusingly bitingly blackly bone dryidiom bring coruscating drily gag GSOH jocose lightly mordancy non-serious pawky photobomb photobombing rib standing joke wag wisecrack Related wordcomically comical | American Dictionarycomical adjective us/ˈkɑm·ɪ·kəl/ making you want to laugh; amusing: Tell me the truth – do I look comical (= strange or foolish) in this hat? Examples of comicalcomical After this comical entry, the problems of a sweep's life are soon apparent. These attempts to offer "something for everyone" become, at the extremes, more comical than instructive, more corrosive than corrective. The problem though is that the ragga vocal is extremely unconvincing and comes across as merely comical and absurd. Dances could be serious or comical, represent passions or moods, depict characters or abstract geometrical patterns. The idea, of course, was to make the victim comical rather than pitiful. In the context of this set of new images, the slightly comical image of a camel sits uneasily with the overarching protest theme. The carer asked whether he had any money, which they all found highly comical, and giggled. Given the idiosyncracies of this music, it could easily have been treated as a comical break from the daily round of the interpreters' concert schedule. To a young fourteen-year-old's ear it is just comical. Thus, the comical and the critical aspects of parody go hand in hand. He was so comical we had to hold our sides laughing. They described the phrase "to do the needful" as "obsolescent", "clumsy", "really comical", "lower class" and "faulty". The muleteer's music goes on to aliment a feast of subtle variation throughout the opera that cannot always be explained by a vocabulary of legible signs and comical inversion. And the mime scenes, in which many of the characters' conversations originally were carried out, are shortened or omitted because they now seem boring, awkward or even comical. Comic and comical are both clearly associated with comedy; magic and magical both stem from magic. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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