COMIC, COMICAL Copy link • COMIC, COMICAL(relating to comedy), [Vid: COMEDY]. Ridiculous, amusing, ridiculus: ridendus (relating to a joke, as Petronius, 80, 9): a comical circumstance, res comica (Hor., A.P., 89); res ridicula: a comical expression, ridiculum dictum, ridiculum. jocosus (full of jokes): jocularis: jocularius (calculated to divert others): ridendus (which excites laughter): A comical fellow, homo ridiculus (who excites laughter). ☞ Joculator in Cic. Att., 4, 16, 3, very unsafe text (Vid: Orelli on that passage), and so better avoided, lepidus (pleasant, from good humour). facetus (witty). a comical fellow, lepidum caput (comedy). a comical narrator, facetus narrator.