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tragicomic

ADJECTIVE
dramatic
Synonyms
STRONGEST
breathtaking climactic comic emotional impressive melodramatic powerful sensational startling striking sudden tense theatrical thrilling tragic vivid
WEAK
affecting effective electrifying expressive farcical histrionic suspenseful thespian
Antonyms
STRONGEST
calm ineffective ugly unimpressive untheatrical weak
WEAK
comedic normal ordinary undramatic unexciting unmoving usual

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In 2007, Bechdel wrote for Slate about telling her mother about her best-selling comic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2014

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel takes place in suburban Pennsylvania, where the author's father led a secret double life.

From Time Magazine Archive

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