Comical means funny, especially in a slightly ridiculous way. A comical sight, comical timing, comically bad.
It differs from comic in an important way: comic describes what is meant to be funny — a comic actor, comic timing — and comical describes what is funny whether or not anybody intended it. That is why comical is often faintly mocking. Comically is used as an intensifier: comically small. Note comedy, comedian; and that the Greek komos was a revel.
1adjectivecomicalFunny, especially in a slightly ridiculous way.
“He looked comical in his father's huge coat, with the sleeves hanging over his hands.”
comical is a quality of funniness.
Latin comicus comes from Greek komikos, from komos, a revel or festive procession. Comedy comes from the same revelry.
Latin
cōmicus
Middle English
comicalle
English, today
comical
From Middle English comicalle, from Latin cōmicus + Middle English -al (modern -al). by surface analysis, comic + -al.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA