Trag·i-com·ic Trag·i-com·ic·al a.  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.

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 tragicomical
      adj 1: manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic
             disparity...between's man's aspirations and his
             accomplishments"- B.R.Redman [syn: tragicomic]
      2: having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her
         life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical
         adventure"--Joseph Conrad [syn: tragicomic]