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Seriocomic

By October 4, 2012October 3rd, 2013colors, Design, English Word, Language-Learning, Layout, Typography-Font
seriocomic: having a mix of seriousness and comic

seriocomic  \seer-ee-oh-KAH-mik\  adjective

: having a mixture of the serious and the comic


 Usage:
The intergenerational meal was a seriocomic affair, with the younger generation refereeing the jabs their elders hurled at one another while trying to keep the youngest generation from getting a true sense of just what was going on.

“Inspired by actual events surrounding the visit of Britain’s King George and Queen Elizabeth to the New York residence of sitting President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, in the summer of 1939, the film is a seriocomic look at one of history’s little known footnotes.” — From a movie trailer review on HollywoodOutbreak.com, September 3, 2012

 Origins:

“Seriocomic” may have a modern ring to it, but our earliest evidence of the word in print is from 1783. Another “comic” word—”heroicomic,” meaning “comic by being ludicrously noble, bold, or elevated”—is slightly older; evidence of it dates to 1756. Both words are about a century younger than our third “comic” word, “tragicomic” (“manifesting both tragic and comic aspects”), which print evidence dates to 1683. (Evidence of the variant “tragicomical,” however, dates all the way back to 1567.)

Entry in Webster's Dictionary

Colors

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