1. Combining heroic and comic elements; treating a trivial or mundane subject in a grand, elevated style, or vice versa.
Usage: Often used in literary criticism to describe works that blend mock-heroic and humorous tones.; Archaic or literary usage; less common in modern English.

Examples

• The poem's heroicomical style elevated the petty quarrel between neighbors to epic proportions.
• The author employed a heroicomical tone to satirize the grandiose ambitions of minor characters.
• The heroicomical narrative mocked both heroic conventions and everyday absurdities.
• In a heroicomical twist, the hero's greatest battle was against a household pest.
• The playwright's heroicomical approach made the audience laugh at the contradiction between form and content.