seriocomic meaning: definition, quotations

seriocomic

adj

Having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies.

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a seriocomic romp through the summer of a group of teenagers.
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:

noun

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: