Tragi-comic \Trag`i-com"ic\, Tragi-comical \Trag`i-com"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. tragi-comique.]

Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes. -- Trag`-com"ic*al*ly, adv.

Julian felt toward him that tragi-comic sensation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy. --Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)