high comedy

1. 1.

   a sophisticated comedy; often satirizing genteel society

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Questions about high comedy

What does high comedy mean?

high comedy means "a sophisticated comedy; often satirizing genteel society".

Is high comedy a common word?

high comedy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.