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Michelangeloesque

Michelangeloesque is the alternative form of Michelangelesque.

Meaning of Michelangelesque

Adjective

Michelangelesque (comparative more Michelangelesque, superlative most Michelangelesque)

  1. Resembling or relating to the works of the artist Michelangelo (1475–1564).
    • The lady in question, at all events, with her slightly Michaelangelesque squareness, her eyes of other days, her full lips, her long neck, her recorded jewels, her brocaded and wasted reds, was a very great personage—only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead.1902 August 21, Henry James, chapter XI, in The Wings of the Dove, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book fifth, page 242

Forms of Michelangeloesque

comparativemore Michelangeloesque
superlativemost Michelangeloesque

Questions about Michelangeloesque

What is Michelangeloesque the alternative form of?
Michelangeloesque is the alternative form of Michelangelesque.

Words near Michelangeloesque in the dictionary

  1. Michelago
  2. Michelangelan
  3. Michelangelesque
  4. Michelangelism
  5. Michelangelo
  6. Michelangeloesque
  7. Michelangelos
  8. Micheldever
  9. Micheldever Station
  10. Michele
  11. Micheletti

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Michelangeloesque (page history and authors); Michelangelesque (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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