Definitions for comedy

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comedy com·e·dy

Spelling: [kom-i-dee]

IPA: /ˈkɒm ɪ di/

Comedy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in comedy (cdemoy).

Definitions for comedy

noun

1. a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.
2. that branch of the drama which concerns itself with this form of composition.
3. the comic element of drama, of literature generally, or of life.
4. any literary composition dealing with a theme suitable for comedy, or employing the methods of comedy.
5. any comic or humorous incident or series of incidents.

Origin of comedy

1350-1400; Middle English comedye Medieval Latin cōmēdia, Latin cōmoedia Greek kōmōidía, equivalent to kōmōid(ós) comedian (kômo(s) merry-making + aoidós singer) + -ia -y

Examples for comedy

No, nor spectators enough, if we tried to get up a comedy, added Altamont.

This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.

The memoir follows Oswalt from 1995 to 1999 as he was starting out on his comedy career in Los Angeles.

Frogs the frisky, frogs the spotted, were our comedy that day.

For other passages containing the comedy of "peering," v. Bac.

How funny their tragedy had been, how sad their comedy, Momus only might tell.

Was that a transitional moment for you from music to comedy?

You write a lot about how you were a jerk or a snob when it came to comedy or film.

His lower orders are all food for comedy or farce: he will not treat them seriously.

Or how kicking a reaction-less eunuch in the crotch over and over again is comedy.