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Definition of Comically
1. Adverb. In a comical manner. "The tone was comically desperate"
Definition of Comically
1. Adverb. In a comical manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comically
Literary usage of Comically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"... real respect—and from the first dialogue, Mazzini's opinions were to me
incredible, and (at once tragically and comically) impracticable in this world. ..."
2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"drank their beers, which seemed comically large in their hands. Casually, he
looked to see who was minding the counter at the Greek's and saw that it was ..."
3. The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1854)
"Pathetically, comically, and outrageously Illustrated by Or any of the- following :—
FUN. Edited and Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. Trice. ..."
4. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"and he threw it upon the table, open, comically, at the passage where Hobson
talks of " my Lord High Chancellor, and the like of that. ..."
5. British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1794)
"... the DROLL cook comically, this is -not fair: — you never cried Hoo boo to the
crane upon our dim, or who knows but he might have produced two legs as ..."
6. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"But while the part of a confirmed miser has been comically and strikingly
represented in these touches, it is stretched in others beyond all bounds ..."
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