Comical vs Jesting - What's the difference?
comical | jesting | Related terms |
(archaic) Originally, relating to comedy.
Being funny, whimsically amusing.
Being laughable, ridiculous.
joking
* Shakespeare
bantering; ridicule
mocking
facetious
humorous
* Macaulay
playful; mocking
jeering
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)- It was a comical performance
- The tutor cruelly excelled in comical scoldings
- What a comical error!
Synonyms
* See also * (comedy) comic, comedicDerived terms
* comicality * comicallySee also
* comicjesting
English
Noun
- Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings .
Adjective
(en adjective)- He will find that these are no jesting matters.