Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to tragicomedy; characterized by both serious and comic scenes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy
- adjective having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics
- adjective manifesting both tragic and comic aspects
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Examples
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Eventually I formulated a plot in which all four characters were entwined in a tragi-comic bi-sexual love story loosely based on Othello.
Ben Arogundade: Digitally Deconstructing Shakespeare Ben Arogundade 2011
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He was cricket mad and his obit in the 1978 Wisden didn't even mention the theatre, just a crushing tragi-comic, three-liner weepie.
Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating 2011
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As for Britain, the tragi-comic saga is a useful occasion to dwell on how all this was allowed to come to pass.
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Eventually I formulated a plot in which all four characters were entwined in a tragi-comic bi-sexual love story loosely based on Othello.
Ben Arogundade: Digitally Deconstructing Shakespeare Ben Arogundade 2011
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If you hurry to the Broad Stage before April 24, you might just catch the best Merchant of your life -- The Merchant of Venice, that is, Shakespeare's tragi-comic masterpiece, often performed, but rarely performed well.
Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times Marc Porter Zasada 2011
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There is a tragi-comic episode where Christopher borrows 1,000 Pounds from Kathleen to give to a Belgium lawyer to pay for an ill conceived plan to bribe Mexican officials for residence papers.
Life is a Cabaret 2009
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However tragi-comic his literary fumblings may be as he wrestles his young love on the sofa, he is most intent to keep her pure and untroubled by his lust.
Father Ralph and Humbert Humbert « Tales from the Reading Room 2010
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Over the course of seven albums since 1996, they have quietly become one of the UK's most popular bands, adored for their exquisite pop sensibility and lyrics that not only owned a kind of tragi-comic precision but that were also sharply, sorrowfully beautiful.
Love, Belle and Sebastian-style Laura Barton 2010
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It is a breezy, edifying history which knits together compelling tragi-comic tales of boredom, stoic ingenuity and sheer courage far beyond the conventional heroic goodie v baddie narratives of such as Colditz and The Great Escape.
How the R&A made its mark at Stalag Luft III | Frank Keating 2012
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If you hurry to the Broad Stage before April 24, you might just catch the best Merchant of your life -- The Merchant of Venice, that is, Shakespeare's tragi-comic masterpiece, often performed, but rarely performed well.
Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times Marc Porter Zasada 2011
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