資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.