tragicomedy
noun
a dramatic or other literary composition combining elements of both tragedy and comedy.
tragicomic
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a word derived from
tragicomedy.
Example Sentences
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But the tale he tells is tragicomic and never less than fascinating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Yet Harjo wrote Lee as a tragicomic figure perpetually floundering his way through his investigations and his life, taking his share of black eyes and deadly near-misses in the bargain.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2025
"Penn is a knockout tragicomic villain: it's his best performance in years," he wrote.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
Paul Murray, another Irish writer, was nominated for “The Bee Sting,” a tragicomic family saga.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
Written in a tragicomic style, it is very amusing.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders
