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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. manifesting both tragic and comic aspects;
- Example: "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman
[syn: tragicomic, tragicomical]

2. having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics;
- Example: "her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"--Joseph Conrad
[syn: tragicomic, tragicomical]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tragi-comic \Trag`i-com"ic\, Tragi-comical \Trag`i-com"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. tragi-comique.] Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes. -- Trag`-com"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster] Julian felt toward him that tragi-comic sensation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tragicomical adj 1: manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman [syn: tragicomic, tragicomical] 2: having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"-- Joseph Conrad [syn: tragicomic, tragicomical]