romantic comedy

English

Noun

romantic comedy (countable and uncountable, plural romantic comedies)

1. (uncountable) A genre of fiction, especially film, that presents love stories in a humorous and light-hearted way.

   Synonyms: romcom, rom com, rom-com, romedy

   She loved to watch romantic comedy films with her mother.

   • 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 7 December 2017:

     Judging from his new movie, the sublimely silly They Came Together, director and co-writer David Wain is a closet connoisseur of the modern romantic comedy.

2. (countable) Such a story.

Translations

love story in fiction or film

Finnish: romanttinen komedia French: comédie romantique f, comédie sentimentale f, romcom f German: Liebeskomödie (de) f, romantische Komödie f Greek: ρομαντική κωμωδία f (romantikí komodía) Hungarian: romantikus vígjáték Irish: coiméide rómánsúil f Japanese: ラブコメディー (ja) (rabu komedī) Korean: 로맨틱 코미디 (romaentik komidi) Polish: komedia romantyczna f Swedish: romantisk komedi c