Associations to the word «Tragicomic»
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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.
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