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.
Derivatives:
tragicomic adj. tragicomically adv.
Etymology: F tragicom{eacute}die or It. tragicomedia f. LL tragicomoedia f. L tragico-comoedia (as TRAGIC, COMEDY)