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Definition of Tragicomic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy. "A playwright specializing in tragicomic drama"

2. Adjective. Manifesting both tragic and comic aspects. "The tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"

3. Adjective. Having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics. "Her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"

Definition of Tragicomic

1. a. Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes.

Definition of Tragicomic

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy in having both tragic and comic aspects. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tragicomic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tragicomic

tragi tragic tragic flaw tragic hero tragic heroes tragical tragicality tragically tragicalness tragick

tragicness tragicomedian tragicomedians tragicomedies tragicomedy tragicomic (current term) tragicomical tragicomically tragics tragicus

tragicus muscle tragion tragomaschalia tragopan tragopans tragophonia tragule tragules tragus tragœdy

Literary usage of Tragicomic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1863)
"... published his "tragicomic History of Don Enrique de Castro ; " in which known facts and fanciful adventures are mingled in the wildest confusion. ..."

2. English Tragicomedy: Its Origin and History by Frank Humphrey Ristine (1910)
"For in many of the broadest comedies tragicomic devices abound—wounds inflicted and lives momentarily ..."

3. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"... trad-jè-kom'ckîl. a. Relating to tragicomedy; consisting of a mixture of mirth and sorrow. tragicomic ALLY ... In a tragicomic manner. ..."

4. Corsica in Its Picturesque, Social, and Historical Aspects: The Record of a by Ferdinand Gregorovius (1855)
"Can one fancy any thing more tragicomic than Seneca in the capacity of ... Every thing in this Roman world is an ironical accident, tragicomic and ..."

5. The Bonfire of the Vanitiesby Tom Wolfe by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"Wolfe's conflagration sweeps away New York in a great tragicomic circus. . . . Wolfe's the uncanny master of the inside angle on style, ..."

6. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"So it is in the three curious plays (two tragedies and a tragicomic "drama") of 1841, while their versification, ..."

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