tragicomic

English

Etymology

Blend of tragic +‎ comic

Adjective

tragicomic (comparative more tragicomic, superlative most tragicomic)

Of, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy in having both tragic and comic aspects.
- 2009 April 12, Robert D. McFadden and Scott Shane, “In Rescue of Captain, Navy Kills 3 Pirates”, in The New York Times, page A1:
  The pirates threatened to kill Captain Phillips if attacked, and the result was tragicomic: the world’s most powerful navy vs. a lifeboat.

Translations

related to tragicomedy

Catalan: tragicòmic
Finnish: surkuhupaisa (fi)
French: tragicomique (fr) m or f
Galician: traxicómico
Italian: tragicomico

Norwegian:
Bokmål: tragikomisk

Nynorsk: tragikomisk
Spanish: tragicómico
Swedish: tragikomisk (sv)

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