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tragicomedy

[traj-i-kom-i-dee]

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noun, plural trag·i·com·e·dies.

a dramatic or other literary composition combining elements of both tragedy and comedy.

an incident, or series of incidents, of mixed tragic and comic character.

Origin:
1570–80; < Late Latin tragicōmoedia, syncopated variant of Latin tragicocōmoedia. See tragic, -o-, comedy

Related forms

trag·i·com·ic

[traj-i-kom-ik] , trag·i·com·i·cal, adjective

trag·i·com·i·cal·ly, adverb

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tragicomedy (ˌtrædʒɪˈkɒmɪdɪ)

—n , pl -dies
1.	a. a drama in which aspects of both tragedy and comedy are found
	b. the dramatic genre of works of this kind
2.	an event or incident having both comic and tragic aspects

[C16: from French, ultimately from Late Latin tragicōmoedia; see tragedy, comedy]

tragi'comic

—*adj*

tragi'comical

—*adj*

tragi'comically

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

tragicomedy

1579, from M.Fr. tragicomédie (1545), from It. tragicommedia, from L.L. tragicomoedia (c.325), contraction of tragicocomoedia (Plautus), from tragicus (see tragic) + comoedia (see comedy).

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