单词 | poe-esque |
释义 | Poe-esqueadj.n. Of, relating to, or reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe or his work: spec. macabre, Gothic. Also as n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer Lucianical1561 Xenophontean1593 Sidneian1599 Anastasian1621 Theophrastical1662 Menippean1693 Varronian1693 Herodotean1748 Shaftesburian1752 Cervantic1760 Alfredian1762 Swiftian1762 Richardsonian1763 Pepysian1765 Rabelaica1768 Rabelaisian1769 Johnsonian1775 Radcliffian1801 Southeyan1817 Lucianic1820 Xenophontic1822 Thucydidean1826 Walter Scottish1827 Voltairean1833 Juvenalian1839 Dickens-like1841 Dickensian1842 Voltairish1842 Hazlittian1844 Theocritean1846 Dickensish1849 Ruskinian1850 Ruskinesque1854 Dickensy1855 Dickenesque1856 Macaulayesque1856 Ruskinite1856 Thackerayan1857 Ruskinese1863 Macaulayish1865 Walpolian1867 Dickensesque1868 Voltairianized1872 Baconian1874 Balzacian1874 Morrisian1879 Isidorian1882 Poe-like1882 Peacockian1886 Poe-esque1886 Zolaesque1886 Macaulayan1887 Bunyanesque1888 Fieldingesque1888 Junian1888 Meredithian1888 Tacitean1890 Hugoesque1893 Hardyesque1894 Kiplingesque1894 Shawian1894 Maeterlinckian1895 Dickinsonian1896 Stevensonian1897 Austenish1898 Austenian1901 Leverish1903 Pateresque1903 Trollopian1903 Malorian1904 Shavian1904 Brontesque1905 Chestertonian1905 Jamesian1905 Leveresque1905 Jacobean1906 Carrollese1907 Hardyan1907 Stendhalian1907 Turgenevian1908 Ouidaesque1909 Galsworthian1912 Poeish1915 Paterian1918 Sitwellian1920 Conradian1921 Mallarméan1924 Theophrastian1924 Wildean1924 Pirandellian1925 Proustian1925 Flaubertian1926 Wodehousian1926 Joycean1927 Stracheyan1927 Theophrastic1928 Yeatsian1928 Lawrentian1930 Firbankian1931 Melvillean1931 Leavisite1934 Runyonesque1934 Kafka1936 Woolfian1936 Twainian1938 Rilkean1939 Audenesque1940 Hemingwayesque1942 Brontëan1945 Kafkaesque1947 Leavisian1947 Morrisan1949 Orwellian1950 Faulknerian1951 Hemingwayan1951 Greeneian1952 Arnoldian1953 Thurberesque1954 Tolkienian1954 Beckettian1958 Hemingwayish1959 Nabokovian1959 Pinteresque1960 Pinterish1960 Vernean1960 Waughian1960 Bradleian1961 Gravesian1961 Kafkian1962 Jules Vernean1964 Snovian1966 Pinterian1967 Lucianesque1969 Tolkienesque1970 Thoreauvian1975 Stubbsian1979 1886 Washington Post 26 Dec. 4/3 Much of this is Poesque—touched by the grotesque wand of his elfish fancy. 1919 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 June 335/1 Mr. Harvey's ‘The Beast with Five Fingers’ is tinged with the Poesque. 1932 Amer. Lit. 4 143 A short incident closely following the plan of a Poe tale, imbedded in a longer narrative not otherwise Poe-esque. 1959 R. Fuller Ruined Boys ii. xi. 154 He was at a loss to imagine precisely what would indicate any impending disaster, short of some obvious and Poesque symptom like a great fissure in the school walls. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 Sept. 44/3 The key to Un coup de dés, if there is one, must lie in the much earlier story Igitur, a Poe-esque tale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1886 |
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