单词 | tragico-comical |
释义 | tragico-comicaladj. Now rare. = tragicomical adj. Cf. tragico-comedy n. 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 1828 R. Montgomery City Looking Glass v. iv. 137 This is all very strange; very strange adventures; and when I am a man, I will make 'em into a tragico-comical play. 1847 W. E. Shuckard tr. C. von Tischendorf Trav. in East 225 Our breaking up was accompanied with a tragico-comical incident. 1906 W. M. Lind Punch & Judy (subtitle) A tragico-comical drama. 1993 Amer. Hist. Rev. 98 1557/2 The tragico-comical opening scene from Fitzgerald's Great Depression era-set novel. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1828 |
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