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

Tragi-comedy \Trag`i-com"e*dy\, n. [Cf. F. tragicom['e]die, L.
   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.