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Pynchonesque

Pynchonesque adjective: of, pertaining to, or in the style of Thomas Pynchon.

Adjective

Pynchonesque (comparative more Pynchonesque, superlative most Pynchonesque)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of Thomas Pynchon
    • From the moment I opened the book I felt I had entered a Pynchonesque world.1993 Apr, Cindi Katz, “Reflections While Reading City of Quartz By Mike Davis”, in Antipode, volume 25, number 2, page 159
  2. Densely convoluted, verbose and full of allusion

Synonyms of Pynchonesque

Forms of Pynchonesque

comparativemore Pynchonesque
superlativemost Pynchonesque

Origin of Pynchonesque

From Pynchon + -esque.

Questions about Pynchonesque

What does Pynchonesque mean?
Pynchonesque means of, pertaining to, or in the style of Thomas Pynchon.
What part of speech is Pynchonesque?
Pynchonesque is an adjective.

Words near Pynchonesque in the dictionary

  1. Pyms
  2. pymt
  3. pymts
  4. pyn
  5. Pynchon
  6. Pynchonesque
  7. Pynchonian
  8. Pynchonians
  9. pyne
  10. pyned
  11. pynes

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