seriocomic

American  

[seer-ee-oh-kom-ik] / ˌsɪər i oʊˈkɒm ɪk /

Sometimes seriocomical

adjective

1. partly serious and partly comic.

   a seriocomic play.

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seriocomic British  

/ ˌsɪərɪəʊˈkɒmɪk /

adjective

1. mixing serious and comic elements

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Other Word Forms

• seriocomically
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of seriocomic

First recorded in 1775–85; seri(ous) + -o- + comic

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

seriocomic

Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi charmed audiences at Sundance 2020 with “The Mole Agent,” her sly, seriocomic documentary about suspicious goings-on at a Santiago nursing home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

Instead, it's a highly stylized and fictionalized seriocomic mystery thriller that employs a slew of heavy hitters, including Jennifer Coolidge, Mia Farrow, Margo Martindale and Richard Kind.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2022

And as the characters wander from Portofino to Rome and Venice — eating and flirting and getting drunk and getting sunburned — the book becomes, by its own inclination, a seriocomic picaresque.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019

Joshua Wheeler detours around them all in favor of his native southern New Mexico in the engagingly chatty and seriocomic "Acid West."

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2018

"I humbly appeal to you all," said Bertram in seriocomic tone, "is my rotundity a mere bagatelle?"

From A Heart-Song of To-day by Annie Gregg Savigny

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