comique
See also: comiqué
English
Etymology
French comique
Noun
comique (plural comiques)
- (dated) A comic actor or singer.
Asturian
Verb
comique
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of comicar
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.mik/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ik
- Homophone: comiques
Adjective
comique (plural comiques)
- comic
- Synonyms: amusant, drôle, 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.
Derived terms
- opéra comique
Descendants
- → Dutch: komiek
- → German: komisch
- → Romanian: comic
- → Turkish: komik
Noun
comique m (plural comiques)
- comedy
- Synonym: comédie
- clown (person who acts silly)
- Synonym: bouffon
Derived terms
- comique de répétition
- comique de situation
Further reading
- “comique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.