different between comedy vs slapstick

English

Alternative forms

• comedie (archaic, often affected as such for humorous effect)
• comœdie (obsolete)
• comœdy (archaic)

Etymology

First attested in 1374. From Old French comedie, from Latin c?moedia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (k?m?idía), from ????? (kômos, “revel, carousing”) + either ??? (?id?, “song”) or ?????? (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ????? (aeíd?, “I sing”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?m?di/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m?di/
• Hyphenation: com?e?dy

Noun

comedy (countable and uncountable, plural comedies)

1. (countable, historical) A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece.
2. (countable) A light, amusing play with a happy ending.
3. (countable, Medieval Europe) A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy).
4. (countable, drama) A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone.
5. (drama) The genre of such works.
6. (uncountable) Entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.

   Why would you be watching comedy when there are kids starving right now?

7. The art of composing comedy.
8. (countable) A humorous event.

Antonyms

• drama
• tragedy

Derived terms

Related terms

• comic
• ode

Translations

References

• comedy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• comedy at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Alternative forms

• slap-stick

Etymology

slap +? stick, calque of Italian batacchio. The pair of sticks was used by the comic character Harlequin in the commedia dell'arte.

Noun

slapstick (countable and uncountable, plural slapsticks)

2. (uncountable) A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.
3. (countable) A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially in slapstick comedy; a type of clapper.

Synonyms

• physical comedy

Derived terms

• slapsticker
• slapstickery

Translations

Anagrams

• plasticks

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?slæpstik/, [?s?læps?t?ik]
• Syllabification: slap?stick

Noun

slapstick

1. slapstick (physical comedy)

Declension

Compounds

• slapstickelokuva
• slapstickkomedia

Spanish

Noun

slapstick m (uncountable)

1. slapstick