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tragicomedies

tragicomedies is the plural 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

Questions about tragicomedies

What is tragicomedies the plural of?
Tragicomedies is the plural of tragicomedy.

Words near tragicomedies in the dictionary

  1. tragicomedian
  2. tragicomedians
  3. tragicomedic
  4. tragicomedienne
  5. tragicomediennes
  6. tragicomedies
  7. tragicomedy
  8. tragicomic
  9. tragicomical
  10. tragicomicality
  11. tragicomically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tragicomedies (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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