dramedy

English

Etymology

Blend of drama +‎ comedy.

Pronunciation

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Noun

dramedy (countable and uncountable, plural dramedies)

1. (uncountable) A genre of film or television that lies somewhere between drama and comedy.
2. (countable) A film or television programme belonging to this genre.
   • 2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     ”Fleabag,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s critically acclaimed British dramedy, featured a young woman whose strongest character trait — being horny — was decidedly not male.

Synonyms

• (genre): comedy drama
• (film/TV programme): comedy drama

Translations

genre

• French: comédie dramatique (fr) f
• German: Comedydrama n, Comedy-Drama n, Dramedy f
• Italian: commedia drammatica f
• Polish: komediodramat (pl) m
• Portuguese: comédia dramática (pt) f
• Russian: драматическая комедия f (dramatíčeskaja komédija)
• Spanish: comedia dramática f, dramedia f
• Swedish: dramakomedi c

film/TV programme of this genre

• French: comédie dramatique (fr) f
• German: Comedydrama n, Comedy-Drama n, Dramedy f
• Italian: commedia drammatica f
• Polish: komediodramat (pl) m
• Portuguese: comédia dramática (pt) f
• Spanish: comedia dramática f, dramedia f
• Swedish: dramakomedi c, dramedi c (rarely used)

See also

• seriocomic
• tragicomedy

Further reading

• dramedy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• maddery