Category:Tragi-comic

Trag`i-com"ic, trag`i-com"ic*al, a. Etym: [cf. F. tragi-comique.]

Defn: 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.