Associations to the word «Tragicomic»

Wiktionary

TRAGICOMIC, adjective. Of, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy in having both tragic and comic aspects.

Dictionary definition

TRAGICOMIC, adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy; "a playwright specializing in tragicomic drama".
TRAGICOMIC, adjective. Manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman.
TRAGICOMIC, adjective. Having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"--Joseph Conrad.

Wise words

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche