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carnivalesque

carnivalesque adjective: resembling or characteristic of a carnival.

Adjective

carnivalesque (comparative more carnivalesque, superlative most carnivalesque)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a carnival.
    • carnivalesque celebrations
    • The market has a lively, carnivalesque atmosphere.

carnivalesque meaning in Tamil

carnivalesque in Tamil

களியாடல் கோட்பாடு

Examples of carnivalesque in a sentence

  • Later representations at court would intensify the carnivalesque parodying of kingly figures to the point of converting them almost into buffoonesque figures […]2010, Julio Vélez-Sainz (editor: Frederick A. De Armas), “Eros, Vates, Imperium”, in Ovid in Age of Cervantes, Toronto: University of...
  • Separated by a winding five-mile road but unified in spirit, they embody all that is carnivalesque, yet comfortable, about an old roadside souvenir shop — just supersized.2009 January 16, Austin Considine, “A Return to Kitsch Mountain”, in New York Times:

Forms of carnivalesque

comparativemore carnivalesque
superlativemost carnivalesque

Origin of carnivalesque

From carnival + -esque.

Questions about carnivalesque

What does carnivalesque mean?
Carnivalesque means resembling or characteristic of a carnival.
What is carnivalesque in Tamil?
Carnivalesque in Tamil is களியாடல் கோட்பாடு. See Carnivalesque meaning in Tamil.
How do you use carnivalesque in a sentence?
Later representations at court would intensify the carnivalesque parodying of kingly figures to the point of converting them almost into buffoonesque figures […]
What part of speech is carnivalesque?
Carnivalesque is an adjective.

Words near carnivalesque in the dictionary

  1. carnityl
  2. carnitylated
  3. carnival
  4. carnival glass
  5. carnivaled
  6. carnivalesque
  7. carnivalic
  8. carnivaling
  9. carnivalistic
  10. carnivalization
  11. carnivalize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carnivalesque (page history and authors); carnivalesque (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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