comedy

Other forms of comedy

plural

comedies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about comedy

What does comedy mean?

comedy means "light and humorous drama with a happy ending". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in comedy?

comedy has 3 syllables: co-me-dy. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkɑmədi/.

What is another word for comedy?

Close synonyms include drollery, clowning, funniness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of comedy?

The recorded antonyms are tragedy.

Is comedy a common word?

comedy is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.