Kafkaesque

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˌkæfkəˈʔɛsk/|/ˌkæfkəˈɹɛsk/|/ˌkæfkəˈɛsk/    美 /ˌkɑfkəˈʔɛsk/|/ˌkæfkəˈʔɛsk/|/ˌkɑfkəˈɛsk/|/ˌkæfkəˈɛsk/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
    — Kafkaesque bureaucracies
  2. Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger.
  3. In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.

词形变化

more Kafkaesque comparative most Kafkaesque superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
Kafkaesquely Kafkaesqueness unKafkaesque
相关词
Kafkaian Kafkatrap Kafkian Dickensian Orwellian Lynchian

词源

Etymology tree
English Kafka
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Italian -escobor.
French -esquebor.
English -esque
English Kafkaesque
From Kafka + -esque, after writer Franz Kafka. Piecewise doublet of Kafkaish.
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