antitragic
- adjective
- /ˌæntiˈtrædʒɪk/
- Literature
- The novel took an antitragic approach, presenting characters who faced adversity with humor rather than despair.
Examples
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Now it's perhaps the "antitragic" character that suggests exploration - the cantankerous protagonist of an enclosed, delineated landscape from which matter may be destroyed or reformed, but not recreated.
Academic text (2007) -
Refusing the simple, antitragic characterization of Christianity is one way to insist that Christianity can take suffering and loss seriously, without always or too easily reverting to promises of eternal recompense.
Academic text (2009) -
In this play, the antitragic elements allowed the audience to reflect on life's absurdities instead of merely invoking sadness.
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Her story is antitragic, focusing on resilience and hope rather than the somber themes typical of tragic narratives.
Antonyms
How Tragic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word antitragic starts with anti- meaning 'against', like in antiwar, and ends with tragic, from 'tragedy' meaning 'a sad, serious story'. So antitragic describes something that goes against the usual sad or serious tone and often makes a scene light or avoids tragic drama.