comically

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English comical

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English comically

From comical + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmɪk(ə)li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmɪk(ə)li/

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Adverb

comically (comparative more comically, superlative most comically)

1. In a comical manner.
   • 2009 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Out of the Bedroom, Into the Clinic”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     Masters and Johnson wanted their work to be taken seriously, and wanted to stay a step ahead of the morality police, so they tended to write in almost comically dense medicalese.