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Hemingwayesque

Hemingwayesque adjective: reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist, or the understated quality of his prose or the themes he wrote about, including war, wilderness, love, and loss.

Adjective

Hemingwayesque (comparative more Hemingwayesque, superlative most Hemingwayesque)

  1. Reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist, or the understated quality of his prose or the themes he wrote about, including war, wilderness, love, and loss.
    • White contrasted the spare, "chastened" Hemingwayesque school of straight writing with gay writers like Proust (and Edmund White too) who were "free to indulge in ornament."1982 December 25, Neil Miller, “Making Things Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 6

Forms of Hemingwayesque

comparativemore Hemingwayesque
superlativemost Hemingwayesque

Origin of Hemingwayesque

From Hemingway + -esque.

Questions about Hemingwayesque

What does Hemingwayesque mean?
Hemingwayesque means reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist, or the understated quality of his prose or the themes he wrote about, including war, wilderness, love, and loss.
What part of speech is Hemingwayesque?
Hemingwayesque is an adjective.

Words near Hemingwayesque in the dictionary

  1. Hemingway daiquiris
  2. Hemingway special
  3. Hemingway specials
  4. Hemingwayan
  5. Hemingwayed
  6. Hemingwayesque
  7. Hemingwaying
  8. Hemingways
  9. heminodal
  10. heminode
  11. heminodes

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