comique

Borrowed from French comique.

comique (plural comiques)

1. (dated) A comic actor or singer.

comique

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of comicar

From Latin cōmicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mik/

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• Rhymes: -ik
• Homophone: comiques

comique (plural comiques)

1. comic

   Synonyms: amusant, drôle, (colloquial) rigolo

   • 1674, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Art poétique:

     J'aime mieux Arioste et ses fables comiques
     Que ces auteurs, toujours froids et mélancoliques,
     Qui, dans leur sombre humeur, se croiraient faire affront
     Si les Grâces jamais leur déridaient le front.

     I would rather have Ariosto and his comic tales than those authors who are always frigid and miserable, who, being temperamentally gloomy, would think it an insult to themselves if the Graces ever unwrinkled their foreheads.

• → Dutch: komiek
• → German: komisch
• → Romanian: comic
• → Turkish: komik

comique m (plural comiques)

1. comedy

   Synonym: comédie

2. clown (person who acts silly)

   Synonym: bouffon

• “comique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012