Something Funny for When You Feel Sad
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The give-and-take you want is tragicomedy (substantive) or tragicomic (adjective).
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answered Jan 24, 2012 at 19:05
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I call back bittersweet is the best word to describe this feeling.
both pleasant and painful or regretful: a bittersweet retention.
Information technology's also less "mod" sounding than tragicomic and so would come beyond as more sincere.
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answered Jan 24, 2012 at 19:28
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Bittersweet doesn't imply funny, though.
Jan 24, 2012 at 19:31
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I think "tragic" is closer to "distressing" than "sweet" is to "funny," swinging the count in favor of tragicomic over bittersweet in this example.
Jan 24, 2012 at 23:13
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I agree bittersweet is certainly more than common than tragicomic in general parlance, but imho it'southward more akin to poignant - the "sweet" part generally implies overwhelming joy, rather than just something amusing/funny.
Jan 24, 2012 at 23:26
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I would still adopt two words similar bittersweet laughter rather than the give-and-take tragicomic.
January 25, 2012 at 0:51
I like the word "wry," although it has a large context.
answered Jan 24, 2012 at 23:11
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Yes, I like "wry" for a lot of contexts where sadness and humour are being juxtaposed.
Jan 24, 2012 at 23:28
A full general give-and-take for having simultaneous, contradictory emotions is ambivalent.
answered January 24, 2012 at 19:39
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According to that definition, yes, yous're right. It would surprise me if that was a common usage, though. I've never heard it used that way. It's always been a lack of business concern about the land of something to me. Being ambivalent about aforementioned-sex activity marriage to me doesn't mean your very enthusiastic near it, while also antisocial the thought.
Jan 25, 2012 at 0:06
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@DefenestrationDay Yeah, it unremarkably connotes "simultaneous allure toward and repulsion from" something or somebody [MW] -- but tragicomic had already been submitted...
Jan 25, 2012 at 0:23
Per other answers, tragicomic fits the bill - merely its use is largely restricted to litcrit contexts.
In common parlance, pathos and the related pathetic are often used ironically, of something that in principle should arouse pity, but in fact is treated with wry sense of humour. Not so common in speech is anticlimax, which oftentimes signifies a sudden transition from genuine desolation to ludicrous levity.
answered Jan 24, 2012 at 19:14
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Merely "pathetic" has largely taken on the meaning of "deserving contempt" rather than the sometime meaning of "deserving pity". If you say, "Bob is really pathetic" few people would answer, "Yes, I feel sorry for him, also". More probable they would say "Aye, he'due south a existent jerk, isn't he?" or "No, I think he'south a nice guy."
Jan 24, 2012 at 22:29
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@Jay: Yes, I quite concord. Pathetic has been enthusiastically taken up for all sorts of contexts including various shades of "contemptible", including those where one is effectively laughing at the person thus described (not laughing with).
Jan 24, 2012 at 23:16
Perhaps the more common choice for what you're describing is ironic, but, admittedly, doesn't necessarily capture the presence of the two elements you cite. Nor does it seem likely that any one particular give-and-take has been established that'southward capable of accomplishing that feat. Is that what you're looking for or volition a neologism practise the trick?
answered Jan 24, 2012 at 19:03
Peradventure Gallows Humor isn't a perfect fit, only in general the Doom & Gloom of the mode of humor could be considered to be fairly synonymous with sadness, and of course humor is basically a perfect fit for the funny half of the equation.
answered Jan 24, 2012 at 20:02
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Melancholy means for something to be both sad and happy at the aforementioned time. It has a nice, notice feeling but nevertheless makes y'all sad
answered Apr 12, 2016 at fourteen:40
Since you're looking for a discussion describing 1'due south state of heed and mood, and too conflicting emotions, maybe, the word broody would help, every bit its first pregnant is moody, meditative, introspective:
broody, adjective broodier, broodiest
moody; meditative; introspective
(of poultry) wishing to sit on or hatch eggs
(informal) (of a adult female) wishing to accept a baby of her own
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/broody
answered Jan 24, 2016 at twenty:48
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- Dark (as in dark comedy)
- Lol-worthy (when something seems only sad, but you need to strike a funny abstruse notation without making a joke)
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answered January 25, 2012 at 0:xiv
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I have seen lolsob.
Jan 25, 2012 at 2:31
satire:
satire ˈsaˌtī(ə)r/ noun The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Source: Oxford Dictionaries.
Synonyms:
mockery, ridicule, derision, scorn, extravaganza, irony, sarcasm
Source: Oxford Dictionaries.
That was what I was looking for when I came upon this thread.
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answered Aug ii, 2016 at 3:54
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I have added links to two separate pages of Oxford Dictionaries, which seem to have been the source of the quoted language above. Delight identify the sources of all quoted language included in future questions and answers you mail on English Language & Usage.
Aug two, 2016 at 22:43
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Although tragicomic is probable the form that the OP is looking for.
Jan 24, 2012 at 19:thirteen
This is close, only non unequivocal. Sad and tragic share some characteristics but are non really synonyms. The OP may make up one's mind if it works for him well enough.
Jan 24, 2012 at 19:24