{
    "term": "comic",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "humorous and making you laugh",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a comic monologue/story"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The play is both comic and tragic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She can always be relied on to provide **comic relief** *(= something to make you laugh)* at a boring party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wore a red nose and novelty glasses for comic effect."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a blackly comic futuristic fantasy"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["richly", "truly", "wonderfully"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "connected with comedy (= entertainment that is funny and that makes people laugh)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a comic opera"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a very fine comic actor"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Charlie Chaplin was a comic genius."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒmɪk/",
                "audio": "co/comic/comic__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːmɪk/",
                "audio": "co/comic/comic__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek kōmikos, from kōmos ‘revel’."
}