Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Both serious and comic.
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- adjective Having both
serious andcomedic qualities or tendencies.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The recital ended in seriocomic despair, with the rueful statement that "the impression I probably made on her darkened mind was, that it was the American custom to breakfast children on bread soaked in whisky instead of light Italian wine."
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910
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What Marshall is after is a kind of seriocomic panorama of working-class love and loneliness in the big city.
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But his almost seriocomic The Black Obelisk has several funny scenes that offer comic relief in the otherwise haunting, ominous tale set in 1923 Germany.
Dave Astor: Serious Novelists Are Sometimes Surprisingly Funny Dave Astor 2012
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The star of Middlesex is the gender-conflicted Calliope/Cal, but Jeffrey Eugenides' seriocomic 2002 novel is also an Ellis Island/melting-pot story.
Dave Astor: The Importance of Immigration in Novels Dave Astor 2011
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Rumpole fans can savor a bailiff's dozen of Rumpole's seriocomic adventures in "Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories" Viking, 502 pages, $30 .
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But his almost seriocomic The Black Obelisk has several funny scenes that offer comic relief in the otherwise haunting, ominous tale set in 1923 Germany.
Dave Astor: Serious Novelists Are Sometimes Surprisingly Funny Dave Astor 2012
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Junot Diaz's also seriocomic, also Pulitzer-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao initially focuses on Oscar -- a New Jersey-based, overweight, socially inept, nice-guy nerd smitten with comic books, Tolkien, Star Trek, and unavailable females.
Dave Astor: The Importance of Immigration in Novels Dave Astor 2011
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Junot Diaz's also seriocomic, also Pulitzer-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao initially focuses on Oscar -- a New Jersey-based, overweight, socially inept, nice-guy nerd smitten with comic books, Tolkien, Star Trek, and unavailable females.
Dave Astor: The Importance of Immigration in Novels Dave Astor 2011
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NY's Muslim punk scene comes under scrutiny in this seriocomic adaptation of Michael Muhammad Knight's 2003 novel.
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The star of Middlesex is the gender-conflicted Calliope/Cal, but Jeffrey Eugenides' seriocomic 2002 novel is also an Ellis Island/melting-pot story.
Dave Astor: The Importance of Immigration in Novels Dave Astor 2011
brtom commented on the word seriocomic
"You were the lion of the night with your seriocomic recitation and you looked the part."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 28, 2007