n. (pl. -ies) 1 a a play having a mixture of comedy and tragedy. b plays of this kind as a genre. 2 an event etc. having tragic and comic elements. tragicomic adj. tragicomically adv.
[ F tragicomédie or It. tragicomedia f. LL tragicomoedia f. L tragico-comoedia (as TRAGIC, COMEDY) ]