Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tragi-comedy

Tragi-comedy , noun

[Compare French tragicomédie, Latin tragicocomoedia. See Tragic, and Comedy.]

A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.
The noble tragi-comedy of “Measure for Measure.” — Macaulay