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Comical vs Jesting - What's the difference?

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Comical is a related term of jesting.


As adjectives the difference between comical and jesting

is that comical is (archaic) originally, relating to comedy while jesting is facetious.

As a noun jesting is

joking.

As a verb jesting is

.

comical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) Originally, relating to comedy.
  • It was a comical performance
  • Being funny, whimsically amusing.
  • The tutor cruelly excelled in comical scoldings
  • Being laughable, ridiculous.
  • What a comical error!

    Synonyms

    * See also * (comedy) comic, comedic

    Derived terms

    * comicality * comically

    See also

    * comic

    jesting

    English

    Noun

  • joking
  • * Shakespeare
  • Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings .
  • bantering; ridicule
  • mocking
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • facetious
  • humorous
  • * Macaulay
  • He will find that these are no jesting matters.
  • playful; mocking
  • jeering
  • Verb

    (head)