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[kom-i-dee]

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noun, plural -dies.

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.

that branch of the drama which concerns itself with this form of composition.

the comic element of drama, of literature generally, or of life.

any literary composition dealing with a theme suitable for comedy, or employing the methods of comedy.

any comic or humorous incident or series of incidents.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English comedye < Medieval Latin cōmēdia, Latin cōmoedia < Greek kōmōidía, equivalent to kōmōid(ós) comedian (kômo(s) merry-making + aoidós singer) + -ia -y³

Related forms

co·me·di·al

[kuh-mee-dee-uh

l] , adjective

pro·com·e·dy, adjective

Synonyms
5. jesting, humor, pleasantry, banter.

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But the dispiriting, uninspired sameness of romantic comedy strikes me as something of a scandal.

Ashamed, he burned all extant copies of it, a treatise on comedy.

Comedy is not really a field in which practice makes perfect.

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But the dispiriting, uninspired sameness of romantic comedy strikes me as something of a scandal.

Ashamed, he burned all extant copies of it, a treatise on comedy.

Comedy is not really a field in which practice makes perfect.

It would be well if all our lives were a divine tragedy even, instead of this trivial comedy or farce.

Go troll on a comedy website instead of acting any more of a fool here.

Brooks' production company is behind the animated series, and the comedy legend voices two characters himself.

We revel in our my delusion of someday having my own comedy show.

Instead, the film's light touch finds comedy in both men's handicaps: the one physical, the other social.

Canada's humor-loving metropolos turns into one big funny bone during its annual comedy festival.

It is a comedy and clearly exaggerates a bit, but their depiction of science nerds rings true.

And, as anyone who's ever been to a comedy club can attest, alcohol and laughs go hand in hand.

No profession save stand-up comedy is as prone to both spectator-driven elation and disheartenment.

Montreal has events practically year-round for things from fashion to music to comedy to visual art.

Interestingly, comedy is also an important tool used by magicians to manipulate attention in time.

It remains to be seen if crowdsourced pilot development will improve prime-time comedy.

The service will use computer algorithms to predict the kind of comedy that users will like.

Canada's humor-loving metropolis turns into one big funny bone during its annual comedy festival.

Similarly, comedy lovers get a kick out of going to comedy clubs and theaters.

Potter sports a brand of racism so extravagantly self-serving that it goes beyond evil to comedy.

And the researchers found that laughing along with some light-hearted comedy actually lowered volunteers' blood pressure.

Psychologists are now divvying up comedy into different humor styles, and each style has different outcomes.

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Now, new research concludes that one key to comedy is for a situation to violate a.

Spontaneous humor can relieve tension and be helpful to you, but you're not auditioning to star at a comedy club.

If you happened to stand outside them, as a foreigner always did, then life could be a continuous comedy.

My actual relationship with the comedy writer was brief and definitely over.

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World English Dictionary

comedy (ˈkɒmɪdɪ)

—n , pl -dies
1.	a dramatic or other work of light and amusing character
2.	the genre of drama represented by works of this type
3.	(in classical literature) a play in which the main characters and motive triumph over adversity
4.	the humorous aspect of life or of events
5.	an amusing event or sequence of events
6.	humour or comic style: the comedy of Chaplin

[C14: from Old French comédie, from Latin cōmoedia, from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmos village festival + aeidein to sing]

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Word Origin & History

comedy

late 14c., from O.Fr. comedie, from L. comoedia, from Gk. komoidia "a comedy, amusing spectacle," from komodios "singer in the revels," from komos "revel, carousal" + oidos "singer, poet," from aeidein "to sing." The classical sense is similar to the modern one, but in the Middle Ages the word came to

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mean poems and stories generally (albeit ones with happy endings), and the earliest Eng. sense is "narrative poem" (cf. Dante's "Commedia"). Comedy aims at entertaining by the fidelity with which it presents life as we know it; farce at raising laughter by the outrageous absurdity of the situation or characters exhibited; extravaganza at diverting by its fantastic nature; burlesque at tickling the fancy of the audience by caricaturing plays or actors with whose style it is familiar. Generalized sense of "quality of being amusing" dates from 1877.

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Cultural Dictionary

comedy definition

A work — play, story, novel, or film — that ends happily for the main character (or protagonist) and contains humor to some degree. A comedy may involve unhappy outcomes for some of the characters. Shylock, for example, in The Merchant of Venice, a comedy by William Shakespeare, is disgraced in the play. The ancient Greeks and Romans produced comedies, and great numbers have been written in modern times.

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