tragicomic

/'trædʤi'kɔmik/ Cách viết khác : (tragicomical) /'trædʤi'kɔmikəl/

Thân thiện

Her life had a tragicomic quality, full of both sorrow and absurdity.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having both pathetic and ludicrous characteristics: Describes something that evokes both sadness and amusement, often because it is both pitiful and absurd.
   • Manifesting both tragic and comic aspects: Pertaining to a situation, event, or quality that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
   • Of or relating to tragicomedy: Characteristic of the dramatic genre that blends tragic and comic elements.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The film's portrayal of the aging clown was deeply tragicomic, making the audience laugh and cry in equal measure.
  • Their attempts to fix the leaking boat with duct tape were tragicomic.
  • He is a writer known for his tragicomic novels about family life.

Advanced Usage

• "tragicomic nature": The inherent quality of being both tragic and comic.
  • Critics praised the tragicomic nature of the play's final act.
• "tragicomic figure": A character who embodies both tragic and comic traits.
  • The fool in the story is a tragicomic figure, whose jokes hide a deep sorrow.

Variants and Related Words

• Tragicomical (adjective): An alternative form with the same meaning as 'tragicomic'.
  • The situation had a tragicomical quality to it.
• Tragicomedy (noun): A play or other work that blends tragic and comic elements.
  • Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is often classified as a tragicomedy.

Synonyms

• Bittersweet: Pleasure mixed with sadness.
• Poignant: Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret, sometimes with a touch of the ironic or absurd.

Related Phrases

• Tragicomic twist: An unexpected development in a story or situation that is both sad and funny.
  • The story ended with a tragicomic twist.
• Tragicomic effect: The emotional impact created by blending tragic and comic elements.
  • The director achieved a powerful tragicomic effect through the actor's performance.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics
   • her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure--Joseph Conrad
2. manifesting both tragic and comic aspects
   • the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments- B.R.Redman
3. of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy
   • a playwright specializing in tragicomic drama

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