Comic and Startling

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Comic adjective - Causing or intended to cause laughter.

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Startling and comic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Startling" instead an adjective "Comic".

Nearby Words: comical, comicality, comically

Startling adjective - Causing a strong emotional reaction because of unexpectedness.

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Comic and startling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Comic" instead an adjective "Startling".

Nearby Words: startle, startled, startler

Spoofed in the Flash comic The Decline of Video Gaming 2; the villain (the CEO of Capcom) laughs evilly and hears thunder, startling him since he's indoors.

Source: Dramatic Thunder
In a Maison Ikkoku comic book, Kyoko is trying to fix the porch globe light when Yusaku arrives, startling her.

Source: Rescue Hug
They both display forms of jealousy with other potential love interests, they spend a startling amount of time doing warm and fuzzy things together in a comic remarkably devoid of the same, and PeeJee even goes with Davan when he moves back to his home state of Texas.

Source: Ship Tease / Web Comics

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