Seriocomic

Definitions: Seriocomic

Seriocomic

Adjective

1. Having a mixture of serious with the comic with comic predominating; "a seriocomic novel".

Date "seriocomic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references)

Synonym: Seriocomic

Synonym: seriocomical (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ridiculousness	Drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible; (unimportant); doggerel; ironical; (derisive); risible.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Seriocomic

English words defined with "seriocomic": seriocomical. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Humanist Play and Belief: The Seriocomic Art of Desiderius Erasmus (Erasmus Studies, No 9) (reference) In Earnest or Game: A Seriocomic Medley: Verses Early or Late (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "seriocomic": seriocomic seriocomical. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "seriocomic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjysmësërioz-gjysmëkomik. (various references)

Bulgarian		шеговитосериозен. (various references)

Greek		κωμικοσοβαρόσ (serio comic). (various references)

Hungarian		félig vidám, félig komoly. (various references)

Pig Latin		eriocomicsay

Portuguese		herói cômico (mocking-bird). (various references)

Russian		трагикомический (serio-comic, tragicomic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		polušaljiv. (various references)

Spanish		tragicómico (tragicomic). (various references)

Ukranian		трагікомічний (seriocomical, tragicomic, tragicomical), напівсерйозний-напівжартівливий (seriocomical). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "seriocomic": seriocomically. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Seriocomic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eriosoma, periocolic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-i-m-o-o-r-s"
	-2 letters: isomeric.
	-3 letters: ciceros, cimices, roomies, sirocco.
	-4 letters: cercis, cicero, comers, comics, comose, cooers, cosier, cosmic, crimes, crisic, isomer, micros, moires, morose, rimose, romeos, roomie, roscoe, soccer.
	-5 letters: cerci, ceric, ceros, cires, cisco, cocos, coirs, comer, comes, comic, cooer, cores, corms, corse, cosec, cosie, cries, crime, croci, crocs, emirs, icier, mesic, micro, mires, miser, moire.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-i-m-o-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: microcopies, sociometric.
	+2 letters: microscopies.
	+4 letters: clitorectomies, microeconomics, seriocomically, stoichiometric.
	+5 letters: econometricians, microdissection, microinjections, misrecollection, trichomonacides.
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