Meaning & use
tragicomedy
A play or situation that combines elements of both tragedy and comedy.
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The film is a tragicomedy about a funeral that keeps going hilariously wrong.
Critics praised the novel as a tragicomedy of family life during hard times.
A note on using this word
Tragicomedy blends serious and humorous tones within the same work, rather than staying strictly tragic or comic.
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