languagey
languagey adjective: consisting or making effective use of written language.
Adjective
languagey (comparative more languagey, superlative most languagey)
- Consisting or making effective use of written language.
- To imagine such a world is to imagine our world: a languagey, inter-textual fictionalist world, a world of signs, a highly cultural world.1991, Don Cupitt, What Is a Story?, London: SCM Press, →ISBN, page 149
- The overheard snippets of real feeling intermingled with poseur typecasting and provocative grandeur made Jayson feel that he could actually write this poem. He mumbled to himself, "of course, it'll take a lot of notes, but I think I know what poetry can do at this point in my development. I've now...2006, Francis Raven, Inverted Curvatures: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Spuyten Duyvil, →ISBN, page 87
Examples of languagey in a sentence
- I've now written it long enough alone and can do a dialogue scene or a narrative bit or a landscape or a really languagey abstract thing with short feminist lines or..."2006, Francis Raven, Inverted Curvatures: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Spuyten Duyvil, →ISBN, page 87:
- I'm here to do as best I can: my watery, grainy, languagey part of the story society is constantly creating about what it means to be alive.2011 May/June, Sue Clancy, “Who Or What Am I?”, in Philosophy Now, number 84, London: Anja Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
- Back then, he admits he was more a fan of Seán Ó Faoláin, that other Cork writer who was "more languagey" than O'Connor.2022 June 2, Des O'Driscoll, “Guests of the Nation: Kevin Barry on adapting Frank O'Connor's classic tale”, in Irish Examiner, Cork...
Forms of languagey
| comparative | more languagey |
|---|---|
| superlative | most languagey |
Origin of languagey
From language + -y.
Questions about languagey
- What does languagey mean?
- Languagey means consisting or making effective use of written language.
- How do you use languagey in a sentence?
- I've now written it long enough alone and can do a dialogue scene or a narrative bit or a landscape or a really languagey abstract thing with short feminist lines or..."
- What part of speech is languagey?
- Languagey is an adjective.
Words near languagey in the dictionary
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