noun
comedy that uses black humor
• Hypernyms: ↑comedy
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nounEtymology: translation of French comédie noire
: comedy that employs black humor ; also : a situation or a series of events that resembles black comedy
his odyssey from illness to diagnosis was a black comedy — Glenn Garelik
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comedy that employs morbid, gloomy, grotesque, or calamitous situations in its plot.
[1965-70]
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black comedy UK US noun [countable/uncountable] [singular black comedy plural black comedies] literature
a play, film, or story that deals in a humorous way with unpleasant aspects of life such as illness and death
Thesaurus: types of story or playhyponym
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black comedy,
a type of comedy characterized by bizarrely or morbidly humorous plots and situations.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.