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单词 tragico-comic
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tragico-comicadj.

Brit. /ˌtradʒɪkəʊˈkɒmɪk/, U.S. /ˌtrædʒɪˌkoʊˈkɑmɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tragico- comb. form, comic adj.
Etymology: < tragico- comb. form + comic adj. Compare slightly earlier tragico-comical adj., and also earlier tragicomic adj.
Now rare.
= tragicomic adj. Cf. tragico-comedy n.
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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
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 959/1 Outleaps old Nicholas..and after Act First of the tragico-comic farce, proclaims, [etc.].
1855 Harper's Mag. June 18/2 The imagination of our readers may picture the paddling up the river, the floundering through the jungle..and all the tragico-comic events that marked the transit across this narrow strip of land.
1942 Isis 34 40/1 The tragico-comic story of Typhoid Mary marks a most interesting episode in the career of William Park.
2003 D. R. Kelley Fortunes of Hist. i. 22 Jenisch's answer..is tempered and tragic, or tragico-comic.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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