comical

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COMICAL, adjective 1. Relating to comedy; comic. 2. Exciting mirth; diverting; sportive; droll. We say, a buffoon is a comical fellow, or his story or his manners are comica.
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