Usually means: Humor derived from dark subjects.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. black comedy: Merriam-Webster
  2. black comedy: Collins English Dictionary
  3. black comedy: Vocabulary.com
  4. black comedy: Wordnik
  5. black comedy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. black comedy: Wiktionary
  7. black comedy: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. black comedy: Dictionary.com
  9. Black Comedy (TV series), Black Comedy (film), Black Comedy (play), Black Comedy, Black-comedy, Black comedy (disambiguation), Black comedy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. black comedy: Rhymezone
  11. black comedy: FreeDictionary.org
  12. black comedy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Black comedy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. black comedy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. black comedy: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Black Comedy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (black comedy)

▸ noun:  Synonym of black humor
▸ noun:  A dramatic work that uses black humor.

Similar:
bad humor, high comedy, blackout gag, funny, comedy, locker room humor, dirty joke, mind bleach, drollery, toilet humor, more...

Opposite:
white comedy, light comedy, comedy of manners

Types:
dark humor, sick humor, black humor, dry humor, gallows humor, tragicomedy, more...

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Similar:
bad humor, high comedy, blackout gag, funny, comedy, locker room humor, dirty joke, mind bleach, drollery, toilet humor, more...

Opposite:
white comedy, light comedy, comedy of manners

Types:
dark humor, sick humor, black humor, dry humor, gallows humor, tragicomedy, more...



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