1. combining heroic and comic elements; treating a trivial or mundane subject in a grand, elevated style, or vice versa
Usage: literary; often used to describe a literary work or style

Examples

• The poem uses a heroicomic tone to describe the knight's battle with a windmill.
• The author's heroicomic style elevates everyday domestic disputes to epic proportions.
• The novel employs heroicomic language when recounting the protagonist's trivial misadventures.
• Critics praised the heroicomic treatment of the minor political scandal in the satire.
• The heroicomic narrative voice makes readers laugh at the grandiose descriptions of ordinary events.