English Explanatory Dictionary

mock-heroic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to a literary mode in which trivial subjects or characters are treated using the elaborate language devices of the heroic style.
noun
  1. A work in the mockheroic style.

Word forms

mock-heroic more mock-heroic most mock-heroic mock-heroics

Etymology

From mock + heroic.

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