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comic-adjacent

comic-adjacent adjective: similar to or suggestive of comics.

Adjective

comic-adjacent (comparative more comic-adjacent, superlative most comic-adjacent)

  1. Similar to or suggestive of comics.
    • Some part of Aronofsky may want to evoke the darkly funny mishaps of a vintage crime comedy, but something else keeps coaxing him halfway down dark alleyways, before the movie scrambles back into more comic-adjacent urgency.2025 August 27, Jesse Hassenger, “Caught Stealing is Darren Aronofsky's funniest film, even if it still turns bleak”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2025

Forms of comic-adjacent

comparativemore comic-adjacent
superlativemost comic-adjacent

Questions about comic-adjacent

What does comic-adjacent mean?
Comic-adjacent means similar to or suggestive of comics.
What part of speech is comic-adjacent?
Comic-adjacent is an adjective.

Words near comic-adjacent in the dictionary

  1. comic operas
  2. comic relief
  3. comic strip
  4. comic strips
  5. comic timing
  6. comic-adjacent
  7. comic-bookish
  8. comical
  9. Comical Ali
  10. comicalest
  11. comicalities

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