Tragicomedy is an English word with synonyms like tragedy or comedy. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tragicomedy in a sentence
Tragicomedy meaning
- The genre of drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
- A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
Using Tragicomedy
- The main meaning on this page is: The genre of drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy. | A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
- Useful related words include: tragedy, seriocomedy, comedy.
- In the example corpus, tragicomedy often appears in combinations such as: tragicomedy that, the tragicomedy.
Context around Tragicomedy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tragicomedy
- In this selection, "tragicomedy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, knockabout, contemporary, set and hard stand out and add context to how "tragicomedy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and knockabout tragicomedy i m and as a tragicomedy set in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tragicomedy" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tragicomedy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It is the kind of bizarre, unexpected tale of tragicomedy that excelled at bringing to the big screen in his prime. (21 words)
As a lover of both potty-mouthed satire and knockabout tragicomedy, I’m delighted that Monday promises a healthy portion of each. (22 words)
Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French version, En attendant Godot main, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts". (28 words)
Running just short of two-and-a-half hours, the pic is a complex and formally ambitious tale, perhaps best described as a tragicomedy, set in a deathly busy New York City restaurant called The Grill. (36 words)
The Angelina Jolie-directed war film “Without Blood," a documentary about Bruce Springsteen and Mike Leigh’s contemporary tragicomedy “Hard Truths” will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival this fall. (34 words)
There is the odd scissors-kick and the bicycle kick, but not enough to bring back memories of Atlee’s atrocious misrepresentation of the game of football in the tragicomedy that was. (32 words)
Example sentences (7)
As a lover of both potty-mouthed satire and knockabout tragicomedy, I’m delighted that Monday promises a healthy portion of each.
Running just short of two-and-a-half hours, the pic is a complex and formally ambitious tale, perhaps best described as a tragicomedy, set in a deathly busy New York City restaurant called The Grill.
The Angelina Jolie-directed war film “Without Blood," a documentary about Bruce Springsteen and Mike Leigh’s contemporary tragicomedy “Hard Truths” will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival this fall.
It is the kind of bizarre, unexpected tale of tragicomedy that excelled at bringing to the big screen in his prime.
Just as the common man has no control over the ups and downs of the share market, the public too has nothing to do with the tragicomedy of politics.
There is the odd scissors-kick and the bicycle kick, but not enough to bring back memories of Atlee’s atrocious misrepresentation of the game of football in the tragicomedy that was.
Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French version, En attendant Godot main, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts".
Common combinations with tragicomedy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: