| 单词 | tragi-romantic |
| 释义 | > as lemmastragi-romantic 2. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘tragic and ——’, as tragi-farcical, tragi-romantic, tragi-satirical, etc. See also tragicomic adj., tragicomical adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > tragedy > and comedy tragicomical1567 comico-tragical1577 tragicomic1637 tragi-farcical1789 comico-tragic1827 tragico-comical1828 tragico-farcical1828 tragico-comic1832 1789 Gentleman's Mag. May 251/1 Mr. Pitt..whom this tragi-farcical Squire calls an artful boy. 1847 A. Humphrey Eng. Prosody ix. 145 We have some [poems] which are denominated tender pathetic, and some, tragi-pathetic. 1896 Daily News 17 Jan. 6/3 The fantastic tragi-farcical experiment. 1913 Eng. Rev. Dec. 73 Art is upon the town, said Whistler in his tragi-flippant manner. 1916 Amer. Art News 16 Dec. 5/4 Willette has excelled himself in two tragi-satirical drawings. 1984 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 43 638 Nostalgia..which cast the history of the fall of the Ming in a tragi-romantic setting. 2002 Time Out N.Y. 18 Apr. 68/1 Foer's depictions of sex..veer from slapstick to tragisentimental. < as lemmas |
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