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A dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
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tragicomedy
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Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature , the term can variously describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ So I watched the tragicomedy unfold before me and believed it.
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n. A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
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n. a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating a comedy with serious elements or overtones [syn: seriocomedy ]
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Wells's stories is, first of all, scientific discovery, and beyond that the petty snobberies and tragicomedies of contemporary English life, especially lower-middle-class life.