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Gigeresque

/ɡiɡəɹɛsk/

Gigeresque adjective: reminiscent of H. R. Giger (born 1940), Swiss surrealist painter best known for nightmarish biomechanical imagery.

Adjective

Gigeresque (comparative more Gigeresque, superlative most Gigeresque)

  1. Reminiscent of H. R. Giger (born 1940), Swiss surrealist painter best known for nightmarish biomechanical imagery.
    • Quatermass also mediated Wellsian influence on the tone and preoccupations of the new hybrid SF–horror-film genre, with its monstrous Gigeresque fusions of machine and organism[…]2007, Keith Williams, H.G. Wells, modernity and the movies, page 164

Forms of Gigeresque

comparativemore Gigeresque
superlativemost Gigeresque

Origin of Gigeresque

From Giger + -esque.

Questions about Gigeresque

What does Gigeresque mean?
Gigeresque means reminiscent of H. R. Giger (born 1940), Swiss surrealist painter best known for nightmarish biomechanical imagery.
What part of speech is Gigeresque?
Gigeresque is an adjective.
How do you pronounce Gigeresque?
Gigeresque is pronounced /ɡiɡəɹɛsk/.

Words near Gigeresque in the dictionary

  1. gigbag
  2. gigbags
  3. gigelira
  4. gigeliras
  5. Giger
  6. Gigeresque
  7. gigeria
  8. gigerium
  9. Gigers
  10. gigful
  11. gigfuls

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