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Definition: Tragicomic |
TragicomicAdjective1. (drama) of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy; "a playwright specializing in tragicomic drama". 2. Manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman. 3. Having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"- Joseph Conrad". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tragicomic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonym: TragicomicSynonym: tragicomical (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ridiculousness | Drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible; (unimportant); doggerel; ironical; (derisive); risible. |
The Drama | Adjective: dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tragicomic |
| English words defined with "tragicomic": tragicomical. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tragicomic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (tragicomic, tragicomical). |
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| "Tragicomic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tragicomic" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tragicomic": tragicomic tragicomical. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "tragicomic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tragjikomik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تراجيدي كوميدي (tragicomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | трагикомичен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tragikomický. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | surkuhupaisa, surku. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tragi-comique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tragikomisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tragikomikus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tragicomico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agicomictray tragicômico. (various references) tragicomic (tragicomical). (various references) трагикомический (seriocomic, serio-comic). (various references) tragikomičan. (various references) tragico/mico (tragicomical). (various references) tragikomisk. (various references) trajikomik. (various references) трагікомічний (seriocomic, seriocomical, tragicomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "tragicomic": tragicomical. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tragicomic" (pronounced tra'jikÄ"mik) |
| 5 | -k Ä" m i k | comic. |
| 4 | -Ä" m i k | atomic, autonomic, diatomic, economic, ergonomic, gastronomic, macroeconomic, microeconomic, monatomic, noneconomic, socioeconomic, subatomic, uneconomic. |
| 3 | -m i k | academic, aerodynamic, anemic, bulimic, cataclysmic, ceramic, cosmic, cytoplasmic, dynamic, electrodynamic, endemic, endothermic, epidemic, exothermic, formic, gimmick, gnomic, hemodynamic, hypodermic, hypoglycemic, hypothalamic, logarithmic, mimic, nonacademic, ophthalmic, organismic, pandemic, panoramic, patronymic, photodynamic, polemic, psychodynamic, rhythmic, samek, seismic, systemic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-g-i-i-m-o-r-t" | |
-3 letters: acrotic, argotic, comatic, comitia, origami. | |
-4 letters: aortic, arctic, atomic, citric, critic, iatric, miotic, moirai, orgiac, tragic. | |
-5 letters: acmic, actor, amici, amigo, amort, argot, cacti, cargo, carom, cigar, circa, coact, coati, comic, corgi, coria, croci, gamic, gator, griot, groat, ictic, imago, macro, magic, magot, micra, micro, moira, orgic, ratio, taroc, toric, torii, tragi, triac. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-g-i-i-m-o-r-t" | |
+2 letters: tragicomical. | |
+5 letters: cinematographic, circumnavigator, counterclaiming. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 67 69 63 6F 6D 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- --. .. -.-. --- -- .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01100111 01101001 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a g i c o m i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 0067 0069 0063 006F 006D 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54846773756981797569 |
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