tragicomedy

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trajikomedi
hem trajedi hem komedi yönü olan piyes
tragicomical hem ağlatıcı hem güldürücü
(isim) trajikomedi

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A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy
{n} a merry and serious drama
{i} drama that's both a comedy and a tragedy, play with both happy and sad moments
A drama that combines elements of drama and comedy
A literary work that contains elements of both comedy and tragedy
a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
tragicomedies a play or a story that is both sad and funny. Literary genre consisting of dramas that combine elements of tragedy and comedy. Plautus coined the Latin word tragicocomoedia to denote a play in which gods and mortals, masters and slaves reverse the roles traditionally assigned to them. In the Renaissance and after, tragicomedy was mainly comic, though Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies almost always include some comic or grotesque elements. Modern tragicomedy is sometimes used synonymously with absurdist drama, which suggests that laughter is the only response left to people faced with an empty and meaningless existence
a comedy with serious elements or overtones
A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy
A type of drama that combines certain elements of both tragedy and comedy The play’s plot tends to be serious, leading to a terrible catastrophe, until an unexpected turn in events leads to a reversal of circumstance, and the story ends happily Tragicomedy often employs a romantic, fast-moving plot dealing with love, jealousy, disguises, treachery, intrigue, and surprises, all moving toward a melodramatic resolution Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice is a tragicomedy See also comedy, drama, melodrama, tragedy
A experimental Renaissance literary work--either a play or prose piece of fiction--containing elements common to both comedies and tragedies

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Of, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy in having both tragic and comic aspects

The pirates threatened to kill Captain Phillips if attacked, and the result was tragicomic: the world’s most powerful navy vs. a lifeboat.

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Having the characteristics of a tragicomedy
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{a} consisting of mirth and sorrow
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{a} in a tragicomical manner
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Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes
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presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"--Joseph Conrad manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity
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manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B R Redman
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having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her life presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"--Joseph Conrad
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between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B
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Redman of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy; "a playwright specializing in tragicomic drama
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{s} simultaneously sad and funny, having sad and funny elements
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of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy; "a playwright specializing in tragicomic drama"
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having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her life
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Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes
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