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seriocomic en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies.
   • He addresses the audience directly and confidentially in an extraordinary 124-line adoxograph which is part social satire and part seriocomic plea for our commitment to his suzerainty […]. 2005, John W. Velz, “Adoxography as Mode of Discourse for Satan and His Underlings in Medieval Plays”, in Clifford Davidson, editor, The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages [AMS Studies in the Middle Ages; 26], New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, →ISBN, page 102:
   • Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a seriocomic romp through the summer of a group of teenagers.

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Deriveds

seriocomically

Synonyms

seriocomedic · ludicroserious

Translations (4)

es jocoserio (having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies) · oc serio-comic (having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies) · pt sério-cômico (having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies) · pl tragikomiczny (having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies)

seriocomic en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (historical) A seriocomic performer; especially, a female variety performer working in seriocomic acting and singing.
   • One day, when Philip had been at the shop for five months, Miss Alice Antonia, the well-known seriocomic, came in and asked to see Mr Sampson. 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 107, in Of Human Bondage:

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Relateds

dramedy · tragicomedy