tragicomical

trag·i·com·e·dy (tr

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n. pl. trag·i·com·e·dies

1. A drama combining elements of tragedy and comedy.

2. The genre made up of such works.

3. An incident or situation having both comic and tragic elements.

[French tragicomédie, from Italian tragicommedia, from Late Latin tragicmoedia, short for Latin tragicocmoedia : tragicus, tragic; see tragic + cmoedia, comedy; see comedy.]

tragi·comic (-k

k), tragi·comi·cal (-

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l) adj.

tragi·comi·cal·ly adv.

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Adj.	1.	tragicomical - manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman tragicomic sad - experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
	2.	tragicomical - having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"--Joseph Conrad tragicomic humorous, humourous - full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein"

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The first half, as in the book, works splendidly as a spiky, tragicomical look at the lives and class wars of 1935 in a world soon to change forever, as seen through the uncomprehending eyes of its enjoyably precocious central character, Briony.

Atonement by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

It is not clear whether Scheibitz is an amnesiac who--in a gesture of regionalist triumphalism--reconfigures these ruins in an attempt to defy the standards established by Minimalism, or whether he is a naif who celebrates the belated East German conquest of the continent of world abstraction (a tragicomical break-through that A.

The curse of Empire by Buchloh, Benjamin H.D. / Artforum International

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