tragicomedy

English

Alternative forms

• comicotragedy, comitragedy

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tragicomédie (whence French tragicomédie), itself borrowed from Italian tragicommedia, from Latin tragicōmoedia, tragicocōmoedia. By surface analysis, tragic +‎ comedy, with haplology.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹædʒɪˈkɒmədi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹædʒɪˈkɑmədi/

Noun

tragicomedy (countable and uncountable, plural tragicomedies)

1. (uncountable) The genre of drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
2. (countable) A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
   • 2023 July 13, “Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway”, in The Economist‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 July 2023:

     This matters because after the tragicomedies of Brexit and Grexit, the world has been enjoying the spectacle of “Orkxit”. This month it was suggested that the Orkney Islands might like to secede from Britain and become a self-governing territory of Norway.

Derived terms

• tragicomedian
• tragicomedic
• tragicomedienne
• tragicomic
• tragicomical
• tragicomically

Translations

drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy

• Armenian: ողբերգակատակերգություն (hy) (oġbergakatakergutʻyun)
• Belarusian: трагікаме́дыя f (trahikamjédyja)
• Catalan: tragicomèdia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 悲喜劇 / 悲喜剧 (zh) (bēixǐjù)

• Czech: tragikomedie f
• Finnish: tragikomedia (fi)
• French: tragicomédie (fr) f
• Galician: traxicomedia f
• German: Tragikomödie (de) f
• Greek: ιλαροτραγωδία (el) f (ilarotragodía)
• Macedonian: трагикомедија f (tragikomedija)
• Polish: tragikomedia (pl) f
• Russian: трагикоме́дия (ru) f (tragikomédija)
• Spanish: tragicomedia f
• Tagalog: lunus-katawanan
• Ukrainian: трагікоме́дія f (trahikomédija)

See also

• dramedy
• seriocomic

Anagrams

• comitragedy