tragicomic

Adjective

• having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics
  • her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure--Joseph Conrad
    

• manifesting both tragic and comic aspects
  • the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments- B.R.Redman
    

• of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy
  • a playwright specializing in tragicomic drama