单词 | pseudo-classic |
释义 | pseudo-classicadj.n. A. adj. That pretends or is mistakenly held to be classic; falsely or spuriously classic in style. 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 1833 Museum of Foreign Lit. Nov. 528/1 Odes conceived in the true classical spirit of antiquity, not in that pseudo classic taste which at one time rendered the very name of ode..with everything tedious and commonplace. 1869 Manufacturer & Builder Sept. 266/2 New-York houses..slowly changing and developing in a natural enough way into the pseudo-classic elaboration of the last and greatest effort at display. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 15 Sept. 3/2 A solid-looking stone mansion,..built in the pseudo-classic style. 1903 H. James Ambassadors ix. xxii. 305 Old waxed parquets, pale tones of pink and green, pseudo-classic candelabra. 1934 M. Sherwood Undercurrents of Influence in Eng. Romantic Poetry iii. 121 He..paves the way for reaction from the pseudo-classic era, and also for the later reaction from romanticism. 1994 Independent (Nexis) 21 July 16 A Venus in full undress..on a pseudo-classic divan. B. n. With the. Art, architecture, or literature considered to be pseudo-classic. Now usually as a count noun: a work of this type. ΚΠ 1858 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 258/2 The trig regularity of the French Pseudo-Classic, or the studied rusticity of Germany. 1910 I. Babbitt New Laokoon p. x In making his protest against the confusion of poetry and painting, Lessing was led to discriminate sharply between what he conceived to be the truly classic and the pseudo-classic. 1914 B. Matthews Devel. of Drama viii. 293 Melodramas..masqueraded as tragedies and conformed to the rules of the pseudo-classics. 1967 B. Brophy et al. Fifty Wks. Eng. & Amer. Lit. 122 Consciously or not..what he [sc. Galsworthy] produced was a pseudo-classic: a thoroughly middle-class substitute for real literature. 2000 Courier (Aberystwyth Univ. Students' Union) 22 Feb. 21/1 Whilst J5 were blazing a trail, all around them contemporaries were falling apart, sampling shite pseudo classics or destroying Clash songs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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