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comic drama

NOUN

comedy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

farce fun humor satire sitcom

STRONG

ball burlesque camp comicality drollery facetiousness funnies funniness grins hilarity hoopla humorousness interlude laughs merry-go-round picnic schtick slapstick takeoff travesty vaudeville witticism wittiness

WEAK

chaffing comicalness drollness field day fun and games gag show high camp high time jesting joking light entertainment send-up wisecracking

Antonyms

STRONGEST

sadness tragedy

STRONG

seriousness

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Shot on a handheld digital camera, the film applies an anarchic home-movie aesthetic to a superbly performed, discomfitingly comic drama of darkness within a family.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

The celebratory season will include the 2018 adaptation of King Lear starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Shakespeare Live! from the RSC, and a semi-fictionalised comic drama on Radio 4 about the creation of the First Folio.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023

“The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit podcast, is a darkly comic drama with a contemporary “Sweeney Todd” twist.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023

Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will star this fall in a Broadway revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer-winning comic drama “Topdog/Underdog.”

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2022

In this respect the comedy of Plautus contrasts favourably with our own comic drama of the Restoration.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

comic drama

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