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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌtɹædʒɪˈkɒmədi/ Forms: tragicomedies [plural]
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. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|frm|tragicomédie}} Borrowed from Middle French tragicomédie, {{cog|fr|tragicomédie}} French tragicomédie, {{der|en|it|tragicommedia}} Italian tragicommedia, {{der|en|la|tragicōmoedia}} Latin tragicōmoedia, {{surf|en|tragic|comedy}} By surface analysis, tragic + comedy, {{glossary|haplology}} haplology Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tragicomedy (countable and uncountable, plural tragicomedies)
  1. (uncountable) The genre of drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Comedy, Drama, Genres
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  2. (countable) A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Comedy Translations (drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy): ողբերգակատակերգություն (oġbergakatakergutʻyun) (Armenian), tragicomèdia [feminine] (Catalan), 悲喜劇 (Chinese Mandarin), 悲喜剧 (bēixǐjù) (Chinese Mandarin), tragikomedie [feminine] (Czech), tragikomedia (Finnish), tragicomédie [feminine] (French), traxicomedia [feminine] (Galician), Tragikomödie [feminine] (German), ιλαροτραγωδία (ilarotragodía) [feminine] (Greek), трагикомедија (tragikomedija) [feminine] (Macedonian), tragikomedia [feminine] (Polish), трагикоме́дия (tragikomédija) [feminine] (Russian), tragicomedia [feminine] (Spanish), lunus-katawanan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-tragicomedy-en-noun-NV7vboFv Disambiguation of Comedy: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy': 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: comicotragedy, comitragedy Derived forms: tragicomedian, tragicomedic, tragicomedienne, tragicomic, tragicomical, tragicomically Related terms: dramedy, seriocomic

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      "sense": "drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy",
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tragikomedia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tragikomédija",
      "sense": "drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "трагикоме́дия"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tragicomedia"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy",
      "word": "lunus-katawanan"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "tragicomedy"
  ],
  "word": "tragicomedy"
}

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