seriocomicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

seriocomic (comparative more seriocomic, superlative most seriocomic)

1. 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.

   • 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:

     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 […] .