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		Definition of tragicomedy in English: tragicomedynounPlural tragicomedies ˌtradʒɪˈkɒmɪdiˌtrædʒəˈkɑmədi 1A play or novel containing elements of both comedy and tragedy. 悲喜剧作品 Example sentencesExamples -  If the play were a comedy, or at least a tragicomedy, Edgar's victory over Edmund would have turned the tribulation to joy.
 -  But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by.
 -  Artistic features Measure for Measure has been perceived as an exceptionally complex and ‘dark’ comedy, or tragicomedy, mostly because of its peculiar structure and characterization.
 -  John Dancer's tragicomedy Agrippa, King of Alba appeared in 1669.
 -  This odd-couple tragicomedy is so well acted by both men, so utterly involving, and so real.
 -  That's because it is not a tragicomedy about being old, but about the grief of settling into middle age, specifically the middle age of a married working-class man.
 -  And he aims to complete this picture with a tragicomedy dealing with the relationship between two fiery best friends.
 -  This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy, and indeed, into a farce, by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel.
 -  It's like a romantic comedy written by Beckett - a romantic tragicomedy - in which romance dies not in some passionate combustion, but fizzles out into uncomfortable, aseptic banality.
 -  Okay, so your life hasn't been made into a movie yet, but some days it has all of the makings of a studio tragicomedy.
 -  And maybe, I too, was a little worried about the performance: an ultramodern and forward-looking interpretation of a tragicomedy about emotional desperation.
 -  Her chance came in this 15 th-century tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas about a madam at a brothel who agrees to help a nobleman seduce a young virgin.
 -  The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous.
 -  I hated those mindless, endless Indian tragicomedies, with their maudlin themes and their (no less than) fifteen song-and-dance numbers.
 -  She has crafted a consistently engaging tragicomedy of life in the big city.
 -  The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot.
 -  In this tragicomedy, lives and careers take place backward, starting with the corruption of success and winding up at an innocent high school graduation.
 -  Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy.
 -  Of his three rousing tragicomedies, Juno and the Paycock is the most popular, The Shadow of a Gunman the most moving, and The Plow and the Stars the most accomplished.
 
 - 1.1mass noun Tragicomedies as a genre.
Example sentencesExamples -  The plays fall into the categories of history, tragedy, comedy and tragicomedy.
 -  Again there is a comparison with Beckett and tragicomedy, where happiness and sadness are all the more vivid from being in relief to each other.
 -  His most recent graphic novel is pure tragicomedy.
 -  It would seem that tragicomedy was the new genre of the moment, and that Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Beaumont sparked each other off to develop that genre to its full potential.
 -  But both tyrant and rake coexist in tragicomedy, as they do in Clarissa.
 -  It is not coincidental that tragicomedy has surfaced as a subgenre in war literature.
 -  Part fairy tale, part tragicomedy, it's sure to be a hit.
 -  This film could have been deadly earnest and full of moral fury, but the tone is the stuff of tragicomedy.
 
  
 
 Derivativesadjective ˌtradʒɪˈkɒmɪkˌtrædʒəˈkɑmɪk (of a play or novel) containing elements of both comedy and tragedy. 悲喜剧作品  a tragicomic tale of a wealthy but lonely music lover Example sentencesExamples - A moving, tragicomic tale of a woman facing the loss of a breast to cancer has won the annual Seniors Week short story competition.
 - Well, here's a revealing, tragicomic, ugly example.
 - It would be tragicomic if it had not cost so many lives.
 
 
 adverb ˌtradʒɪˈkɒmɪkliˌtrædʒəˈkɑmək(ə)li A stout but vulnerable little object, it heaves part of itself aloft in a way that leaves one footlike dowel hanging, tragicomically, a few inches off the ground. Example sentencesExamples - Once again the defense was tragicomically inept, particularly against our point guard, who racked up seven assists before the first quarter was over.
 - It's a very serious issue; they're often abetted by over-zealous or uninformed prosecutors; and it does happen - as the notorious case I just mentioned tragicomically demonstrated.
 
 
 
 OriginLate 16th century: from French tragicomédie or Italian tragicomedia, based on Latin tragicocomoedia, from tragicus (see tragic) + comoedia (see comedy).    Definition of tragicomedy in US English: tragicomedynounˌtrædʒəˈkɑmədiˌtrajəˈkämədē 1A play or novel containing elements of both comedy and tragedy. 悲喜剧作品 Example sentencesExamples -  She has crafted a consistently engaging tragicomedy of life in the big city.
 -  I hated those mindless, endless Indian tragicomedies, with their maudlin themes and their (no less than) fifteen song-and-dance numbers.
 -  But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by.
 -  Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy.
 -  Of his three rousing tragicomedies, Juno and the Paycock is the most popular, The Shadow of a Gunman the most moving, and The Plow and the Stars the most accomplished.
 -  This odd-couple tragicomedy is so well acted by both men, so utterly involving, and so real.
 -  Okay, so your life hasn't been made into a movie yet, but some days it has all of the makings of a studio tragicomedy.
 -  Her chance came in this 15 th-century tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas about a madam at a brothel who agrees to help a nobleman seduce a young virgin.
 -  The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot.
 -  The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous.
 -  In this tragicomedy, lives and careers take place backward, starting with the corruption of success and winding up at an innocent high school graduation.
 -  John Dancer's tragicomedy Agrippa, King of Alba appeared in 1669.
 -  It's like a romantic comedy written by Beckett - a romantic tragicomedy - in which romance dies not in some passionate combustion, but fizzles out into uncomfortable, aseptic banality.
 -  If the play were a comedy, or at least a tragicomedy, Edgar's victory over Edmund would have turned the tribulation to joy.
 -  Artistic features Measure for Measure has been perceived as an exceptionally complex and ‘dark’ comedy, or tragicomedy, mostly because of its peculiar structure and characterization.
 -  And he aims to complete this picture with a tragicomedy dealing with the relationship between two fiery best friends.
 -  That's because it is not a tragicomedy about being old, but about the grief of settling into middle age, specifically the middle age of a married working-class man.
 -  And maybe, I too, was a little worried about the performance: an ultramodern and forward-looking interpretation of a tragicomedy about emotional desperation.
 -  This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy, and indeed, into a farce, by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel.
 
 - 1.1 Tragicomedy as a genre.
Example sentencesExamples -  It is not coincidental that tragicomedy has surfaced as a subgenre in war literature.
 -  But both tyrant and rake coexist in tragicomedy, as they do in Clarissa.
 -  This film could have been deadly earnest and full of moral fury, but the tone is the stuff of tragicomedy.
 -  Again there is a comparison with Beckett and tragicomedy, where happiness and sadness are all the more vivid from being in relief to each other.
 -  It would seem that tragicomedy was the new genre of the moment, and that Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Beaumont sparked each other off to develop that genre to its full potential.
 -  The plays fall into the categories of history, tragedy, comedy and tragicomedy.
 -  Part fairy tale, part tragicomedy, it's sure to be a hit.
 -  His most recent graphic novel is pure tragicomedy.
 
  
 
 OriginLate 16th century: from French tragicomédie or Italian tragicomedia, based on Latin tragicocomoedia, from tragicus (see tragic) + comoedia (see comedy).     |