Definition of tragicomedy in English:

tragicomedy

nounPlural tragicomedies ˌtradʒɪˈkɒmɪdiˌtrædʒəˈkɑmədi

1A play or novel containing elements of both comedy and tragedy.
悲喜剧作品
Example sentencesExamples
- If the play were a comedy, or at least a tragicomedy, Edgar's victory over Edmund would have turned the tribulation to joy.
- But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by.
- Artistic features Measure for Measure has been perceived as an exceptionally complex and ‘dark’ comedy, or tragicomedy, mostly because of its peculiar structure and characterization.
- John Dancer's tragicomedy Agrippa, King of Alba appeared in 1669.
- This odd-couple tragicomedy is so well acted by both men, so utterly involving, and so real.
- That's because it is not a tragicomedy about being old, but about the grief of settling into middle age, specifically the middle age of a married working-class man.
- And he aims to complete this picture with a tragicomedy dealing with the relationship between two fiery best friends.
- This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy, and indeed, into a farce, by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel.
- It's like a romantic comedy written by Beckett - a romantic tragicomedy - in which romance dies not in some passionate combustion, but fizzles out into uncomfortable, aseptic banality.
- Okay, so your life hasn't been made into a movie yet, but some days it has all of the makings of a studio tragicomedy.
- And maybe, I too, was a little worried about the performance: an ultramodern and forward-looking interpretation of a tragicomedy about emotional desperation.
- Her chance came in this 15 th-century tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas about a madam at a brothel who agrees to help a nobleman seduce a young virgin.
- The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous.
- I hated those mindless, endless Indian tragicomedies, with their maudlin themes and their (no less than) fifteen song-and-dance numbers.
- She has crafted a consistently engaging tragicomedy of life in the big city.
- The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot.
- In this tragicomedy, lives and careers take place backward, starting with the corruption of success and winding up at an innocent high school graduation.
- Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy.
- Of his three rousing tragicomedies, Juno and the Paycock is the most popular, The Shadow of a Gunman the most moving, and The Plow and the Stars the most accomplished.
1. 1.1mass noun Tragicomedies as a genre.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The plays fall into the categories of history, tragedy, comedy and tragicomedy.
  Again there is a comparison with Beckett and tragicomedy, where happiness and sadness are all the more vivid from being in relief to each other.
  His most recent graphic novel is pure tragicomedy.
  It would seem that tragicomedy was the new genre of the moment, and that Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Beaumont sparked each other off to develop that genre to its full potential.
  But both tyrant and rake coexist in tragicomedy, as they do in Clarissa.
  It is not coincidental that tragicomedy has surfaced as a subgenre in war literature.
  Part fairy tale, part tragicomedy, it's sure to be a hit.
  This film could have been deadly earnest and full of moral fury, but the tone is the stuff of tragicomedy.

Derivatives

tragicomic

adjective ˌtradʒɪˈkɒmɪkˌtrædʒəˈkɑmɪk

(of a play or novel) containing elements of both comedy and tragedy.
悲喜剧作品
a tragicomic tale of a wealthy but lonely music lover
Example sentencesExamples
- A moving, tragicomic tale of a woman facing the loss of a breast to cancer has won the annual Seniors Week short story competition.
- Well, here's a revealing, tragicomic, ugly example.
- It would be tragicomic if it had not cost so many lives.

tragicomically

adverb ˌtradʒɪˈkɒmɪkliˌtrædʒəˈkɑmək(ə)li

A stout but vulnerable little object, it heaves part of itself aloft in a way that leaves one footlike dowel hanging, tragicomically, a few inches off the ground.
Example sentencesExamples
- Once again the defense was tragicomically inept, particularly against our point guard, who racked up seven assists before the first quarter was over.
- It's a very serious issue; they're often abetted by over-zealous or uninformed prosecutors; and it does happen - as the notorious case I just mentioned tragicomically demonstrated.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French tragicomédie or Italian tragicomedia, based on Latin tragicocomoedia, from tragicus (see tragic) + comoedia (see comedy).

Rhymes

comedy

Definition of tragicomedy in US English:

tragicomedy

nounˌtrædʒəˈkɑmədiˌtrajəˈkämədē

1A play or novel containing elements of both comedy and tragedy.
悲喜剧作品
Example sentencesExamples
- She has crafted a consistently engaging tragicomedy of life in the big city.
- I hated those mindless, endless Indian tragicomedies, with their maudlin themes and their (no less than) fifteen song-and-dance numbers.
- But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by.
- Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy.
- Of his three rousing tragicomedies, Juno and the Paycock is the most popular, The Shadow of a Gunman the most moving, and The Plow and the Stars the most accomplished.
- This odd-couple tragicomedy is so well acted by both men, so utterly involving, and so real.
- Okay, so your life hasn't been made into a movie yet, but some days it has all of the makings of a studio tragicomedy.
- Her chance came in this 15 th-century tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas about a madam at a brothel who agrees to help a nobleman seduce a young virgin.
- The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot.
- The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous.
- In this tragicomedy, lives and careers take place backward, starting with the corruption of success and winding up at an innocent high school graduation.
- John Dancer's tragicomedy Agrippa, King of Alba appeared in 1669.
- It's like a romantic comedy written by Beckett - a romantic tragicomedy - in which romance dies not in some passionate combustion, but fizzles out into uncomfortable, aseptic banality.
- If the play were a comedy, or at least a tragicomedy, Edgar's victory over Edmund would have turned the tribulation to joy.
- Artistic features Measure for Measure has been perceived as an exceptionally complex and ‘dark’ comedy, or tragicomedy, mostly because of its peculiar structure and characterization.
- And he aims to complete this picture with a tragicomedy dealing with the relationship between two fiery best friends.
- That's because it is not a tragicomedy about being old, but about the grief of settling into middle age, specifically the middle age of a married working-class man.
- And maybe, I too, was a little worried about the performance: an ultramodern and forward-looking interpretation of a tragicomedy about emotional desperation.
- This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy, and indeed, into a farce, by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel.
1. 1.1 Tragicomedy as a genre.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is not coincidental that tragicomedy has surfaced as a subgenre in war literature.
  But both tyrant and rake coexist in tragicomedy, as they do in Clarissa.
  This film could have been deadly earnest and full of moral fury, but the tone is the stuff of tragicomedy.
  Again there is a comparison with Beckett and tragicomedy, where happiness and sadness are all the more vivid from being in relief to each other.
  It would seem that tragicomedy was the new genre of the moment, and that Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Beaumont sparked each other off to develop that genre to its full potential.
  The plays fall into the categories of history, tragedy, comedy and tragicomedy.
  Part fairy tale, part tragicomedy, it's sure to be a hit.
  His most recent graphic novel is pure tragicomedy.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French tragicomédie or Italian tragicomedia, based on Latin tragicocomoedia, from tragicus (see tragic) + comoedia (see comedy).

词汇	tragicomedy
释义	Definition of tragicomedy in English: tragicomedy nounPlural tragicomedies ˌtradʒɪˈkɒmɪdiˌtrædʒəˈkɑmədi 1A play or novel containing elements of both comedy and tragedy. 悲喜剧作品 Example sentencesExamples If the play were a comedy, or at least a tragicomedy, Edgar's victory over Edmund would have turned the tribulation to joy. But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by. Artistic features Measure for Measure has been perceived as an exceptionally complex and ‘dark’ comedy, or tragicomedy, mostly because of its peculiar structure and characterization. John Dancer's tragicomedy Agrippa, King of Alba appeared in 1669. This odd-couple tragicomedy is so well acted by both men, so utterly involving, and so real. That's because it is not a tragicomedy about being old, but about the grief of settling into middle age, specifically the middle age of a married working-class man. And he aims to complete this picture with a tragicomedy dealing with the relationship between two fiery best friends. This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy, and indeed, into a farce, by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel. It's like a romantic comedy written by Beckett - a romantic tragicomedy - in which romance dies not in some passionate combustion, but fizzles out into uncomfortable, aseptic banality. Okay, so your life hasn't been made into a movie yet, but some days it has all of the makings of a studio tragicomedy. And maybe, I too, was a little worried about the performance: an ultramodern and forward-looking interpretation of a tragicomedy about emotional desperation. Her chance came in this 15 th-century tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas about a madam at a brothel who agrees to help a nobleman seduce a young virgin. The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous. I hated those mindless, endless Indian tragicomedies, with their maudlin themes and their (no less than) fifteen song-and-dance numbers. She has crafted a consistently engaging tragicomedy of life in the big city. The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot. In this tragicomedy, lives and careers take place backward, starting with the corruption of success and winding up at an innocent high school graduation. Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy. Of his three rousing tragicomedies, Juno and the Paycock is the most popular, The Shadow of a Gunman the most moving, and The Plow and the Stars the most accomplished. 1.1mass noun Tragicomedies as a genre. Example sentencesExamples The plays fall into the categories of history, tragedy, comedy and tragicomedy. Again there is a comparison with Beckett and tragicomedy, where happiness and sadness are all the more vivid from being in relief to each other. His most recent graphic novel is pure tragicomedy. It would seem that tragicomedy was the new genre of the moment, and that Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Beaumont sparked each other off to develop that genre to its full potential. But both tyrant and rake coexist in tragicomedy, as they do in Clarissa. It is not coincidental that tragicomedy has surfaced as a subgenre in war literature. Part fairy tale, part tragicomedy, it's sure to be a hit. This film could have been deadly earnest and full of moral fury, but the tone is the stuff of tragicomedy. Derivatives tragicomic adjective ˌtradʒɪˈkɒmɪkˌtrædʒəˈkɑmɪk (of a play or novel) containing elements of both comedy and tragedy. 悲喜剧作品 a tragicomic tale of a wealthy but lonely music lover Example sentencesExamples A moving, tragicomic tale of a woman facing the loss of a breast to cancer has won the annual Seniors Week short story competition. Well, here's a revealing, tragicomic, ugly example. It would be tragicomic if it had not cost so many lives. tragicomically adverb ˌtradʒɪˈkɒmɪkliˌtrædʒəˈkɑmək(ə)li A stout but vulnerable little object, it heaves part of itself aloft in a way that leaves one footlike dowel hanging, tragicomically, a few inches off the ground. Example sentencesExamples Once again the defense was tragicomically inept, particularly against our point guard, who racked up seven assists before the first quarter was over. It's a very serious issue; they're often abetted by over-zealous or uninformed prosecutors; and it does happen - as the notorious case I just mentioned tragicomically demonstrated. Origin Late 16th century: from French tragicomédie or Italian tragicomedia, based on Latin tragicocomoedia, from tragicus (see tragic) + comoedia (see comedy). Rhymes comedy Definition of tragicomedy in US English: tragicomedy nounˌtrædʒəˈkɑmədiˌtrajəˈkämədē 1A play or novel containing elements of both comedy and tragedy. 悲喜剧作品 Example sentencesExamples She has crafted a consistently engaging tragicomedy of life in the big city. I hated those mindless, endless Indian tragicomedies, with their maudlin themes and their (no less than) fifteen song-and-dance numbers. But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by. Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy. Of his three rousing tragicomedies, Juno and the Paycock is the most popular, The Shadow of a Gunman the most moving, and The Plow and the Stars the most accomplished. This odd-couple tragicomedy is so well acted by both men, so utterly involving, and so real. Okay, so your life hasn't been made into a movie yet, but some days it has all of the makings of a studio tragicomedy. Her chance came in this 15 th-century tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas about a madam at a brothel who agrees to help a nobleman seduce a young virgin. The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot. The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous. In this tragicomedy, lives and careers take place backward, starting with the corruption of success and winding up at an innocent high school graduation. John Dancer's tragicomedy Agrippa, King of Alba appeared in 1669. It's like a romantic comedy written by Beckett - a romantic tragicomedy - in which romance dies not in some passionate combustion, but fizzles out into uncomfortable, aseptic banality. If the play were a comedy, or at least a tragicomedy, Edgar's victory over Edmund would have turned the tribulation to joy. Artistic features Measure for Measure has been perceived as an exceptionally complex and ‘dark’ comedy, or tragicomedy, mostly because of its peculiar structure and characterization. And he aims to complete this picture with a tragicomedy dealing with the relationship between two fiery best friends. That's because it is not a tragicomedy about being old, but about the grief of settling into middle age, specifically the middle age of a married working-class man. And maybe, I too, was a little worried about the performance: an ultramodern and forward-looking interpretation of a tragicomedy about emotional desperation. This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy, and indeed, into a farce, by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel. 1.1 Tragicomedy as a genre. Example sentencesExamples It is not coincidental that tragicomedy has surfaced as a subgenre in war literature. But both tyrant and rake coexist in tragicomedy, as they do in Clarissa. This film could have been deadly earnest and full of moral fury, but the tone is the stuff of tragicomedy. Again there is a comparison with Beckett and tragicomedy, where happiness and sadness are all the more vivid from being in relief to each other. It would seem that tragicomedy was the new genre of the moment, and that Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Beaumont sparked each other off to develop that genre to its full potential. The plays fall into the categories of history, tragedy, comedy and tragicomedy. Part fairy tale, part tragicomedy, it's sure to be a hit. His most recent graphic novel is pure tragicomedy. Origin Late 16th century: from French tragicomédie or Italian tragicomedia, based on Latin tragicocomoedia, from tragicus (see tragic) + comoedia (see comedy).
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