expressionisticadj.
/ɛksprɛʃəˈnɪstɪk/ Of, pertaining to, or produced by expressionists; characterized by expressionism.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > specific movement or period
classical1546
pastoral1566
classic1597
Medicean1652
romantic1812
tedesco1814
realistic1829
realista1832
pseudo-classic1833
classicist1838
pseudo-classical1838
renaissant1839
modernist1848
post-classic1850
post-classical1851
pseudo-Gothic1853
classicizing1865
classicistic1866
serio-grotesque1873
geometric1877
neoclassical1877
modernistic1878
neoclassic1878
pseudo-archaic1878
William Morris1883
protocorinthian1884
veristic1884
William and Mary1886
Yuan1888
romanticistic1889
veritistic1894
auto-destructive1895
pre-Romantic1895
Trajanic1906
neo-realistic1909
New Romantic1909
neo-realist1912
futuristic1915
postmodern1916
Dada1918
Dadaist1918
surrealist1918
proto-Romantic1920
expressionistic1921
modernista1924
super-realist1925
superrealistic1925
postmodernist1926
proto-Baroque1926
post-symbolist1927
pre-modernist1927
surrealistic1930
Renaissancist1932
Colonial Revival1934
neo-baroque1935
socialist-realist1935
social realist1949
social realistic1949
kitchen sink1954
William IV1955
formalistic1957
Zhdanovite1957
neo-Dadaist1960
neo-modernist1960
William Morrisy1960
neo-Dada1962
Zhdanovist1966
conceptual1969
conceptualist1973
po-mo1987
pathetic1990
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let iii. x She had begun to exchange her Empire for her Expressionistic furniture.
1924 Glasgow Herald 17 July 4 An example of the expressionistic type of drama.
1927 Glasgow Herald 6 Oct. 6 Careless, expressionistic young men.
1928 Observer 29 Jan. 15/4 His expressionistic ingenuity achieved many stimulating effects.
1966 Listener 6 Oct. 513/2 Jakov Lind's Landscape In Concrete is a German miasma-novel, expressionistic, nightmarish, and confusedly allegorical.
Derivatives
expressioˈnistically adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adverb] > specific movement or period
classically1753
realistically1846
expressionistically1924
surrealistically1934
1924 Sunday Times 23 Mar. 6/3 The fourth scene shows his feelings expressionistically.
1970 Daily Tel. 17 June 16/5 A Bach chorale (expressionistically anticipated at the beginning of the second movement).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.1921