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comitragedy

comitragedy is the alternative form of tragicomedy.

Meaning of tragicomedy

Noun

tragicomedy (countable and uncountable, plural tragicomedies)

  1. (uncountable) The genre of drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
  2. (countable) A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
    • This matters because after the tragicomedies of Brexit and Grexit, the world has been enjoying the spectacle of “Orkxit”. This month it was suggested that the Orkney Islands might like to secede from Britain and become a self-governing territory of Norway.2023 July 13, “Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2023

Forms of comitragedy

pluralcomitragedies

Questions about comitragedy

What is comitragedy the alternative form of?
Comitragedy is the alternative form of tragicomedy.

Words near comitragedy in the dictionary

  1. comitological
  2. comitologies
  3. comitology
  4. Comitos
  5. comitragedies
  6. comitragedy
  7. comitragic
  8. comitted
  9. comity
  10. comix
  11. comixed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comitragedy (page history and authors); tragicomedy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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