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Synonyms for comedy
ˈkɒm ɪ dicom·e·dy

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  1. comedynoun

    Antonyms:
    drama, tragedy

  2. comedynoun

    Antonyms:
    drama, tragedy

  3. comedynoun

    Antonyms:
    tragedy, drama

  4. comedynoun

    Antonyms:
    tragedy, drama

  5. comedynoun

    Antonyms:
    tragedy, drama

  6. comedynoun

    Antonyms:
    drama, tragedy

  7. comedynoun

    Antonyms:
    drama, tragedy

  8. comedynoun

    Antonyms:
    tragedy, drama

  9. comedynoun

    Antonyms:
    tragedy, drama

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. comedynoun

    light and humorous drama with a happy ending

    Synonyms:
    clowning, funniness, drollery

    Antonyms:
    tragedy

  2. drollery, clowning, comedy, funninessnoun

    a comic incident or series of incidents

    Synonyms:
    frivolity, buffoonery, drollery, funniness, japery, harlequinade, waggery, prank, clowning

    Antonyms:
    tragedy

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  1. List of paraphrases for "comedy":

    comic, humour, comedian, charade, humor, farce, playhouse, pretense

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#3313comedy
#3971humor
#4214comic
#10304humour
#19702playhouse
#21386comedian
#29414prank
#31654farce
#47257charade
#48205pretense
#77180clowning
#94857frivolity
#169267buffoonery
#273287drollery

How to use comedy in a sentence?

  1. Dania Ramirez:

    We have a lot more comedy. It gets a lot sexier. We have so many new characters that are coming in and spicing up our world.

  2. Philip Sidney:

    Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life.

  3. Mel Brooks:

    Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

  4. Matthew Belloni:

    We will see how he (Gervais) handles it. Is there a place for that kind of sarcastic and insult-oriented comedy in Hollywood 2020? We'll see.

  5. Stephen Fry:

    It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.


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