seriocomic
adjective, noun
seriocomic is an adjective meaning “Having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-R-I-O-C-O-M-I-C, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does seriocomic mean?
adjective
- 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.
noun
- 1
A seriocomic performer; especially, a female variety performer working in seriocomic acting and singing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of seriocomic
- more seriocomic comparative
- most seriocomic superlative
- seriocomics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is seriocomic?
Seriocomic appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Seriocomic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | sério-cômico |
| Spanish | jocoserio |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.