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TRAGICOMEDY

\tɹˈad͡ʒɪkˌɒmədi], \tɹˈad‍ʒɪkˌɒmədi], \t_ɹ_ˈa_dʒ_ɪ_k_ˌɒ_m_ə_d_i]\

Definitions of TRAGICOMEDY

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary

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a comedy with serious elements or overtones

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

a comedy with serious elements or overtones

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

A play which combines tragic and comic scenes and does not have a fatal end.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

Tragic-comic, tragicomical.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

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