英単語

comicの意味・使い方・発音

comic

英 ['kɒmɪk] 美 ['kɑmɪk]
  • comedic; comic; amusing
  • n. コミックストリップ; コメディアン; コミックキャラクター

語源


喜劇

お笑いから、喜び。

英語の語源


comic (adj.)
late 14c., "of comedy in the dramatic sense," from Latin comicus "of comedy, represented in comedy, in comic style," from Greek komikos "of or pertaining to comedy," from komos (see comedy). Meaning "intentionally funny" first recorded 1791, and comedic (1630s) has since picked up the older sense of the word.
Speaking of the masters of the comedic spirit (if I call it, as he does, the Comic Spirit, this darkened generation will suppose me to refer to the animal spirits of tomfools and merryandrews) .... [G.B. Shaw, 1897]
Something that is comic has comedy as its aim or origin; something is comical if the effect is comedy, whether intended or not.
comic (n.)
"a comedian," 1580s, from comic (adj.). Latin adjective comicus also meant "a comic poet, writer of comedies." Meaning "a comic book or comic strip" is from 1889; comics for these collectively is from 1890. Comic strip first attested 1920; comic book is from 1941. Comic relief is attested from 1825.

例文


1. A timeless comic actor-his simplicity and his apparent ease are matchless.
喜劇界の常緑樹として——彼のシンプルで素朴で自然で気前がいい人はいない。

2.She has carved a niche for herself as a comic actor.
彼女はコメディアンとしてすでに天地を切り開いている。

3.Grodin is a fine comic actor.
グロディンは優れたコメディアンだ。

4.The book read like a black comic burlesque.
この本は荒唐無稽で滑稽な風刺作品のように読んでいる。

5.The poem 's comic allegory was transparent.
この詩の喜劇的な風刺法は明らかである。

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