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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Tragi-comedy

· Trag·i-com·e·dy · IPA
01 n. A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of trage…
  1. 1.
    A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.
    “The noble tragi-comedy of “Measure for Measure.”” Macaulay.