situation comedy

1. 1.

   a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life

   Synonymssitcom

   Broadercomedy
2. 2.

   a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life

   Synonymssitcom

   Broadertelevision program

Questions about situation comedy

What does situation comedy mean?

situation comedy means "a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for situation comedy?

Close synonyms include sitcom, sitcom. 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.

Is situation comedy a common word?

situation 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.