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unShakespearean

unShakespearean is the alternative form of un-Shakespearean.

Meaning of un-Shakespearean

Adjective

un-Shakespearean (comparative more un-Shakespearean, superlative most un-Shakespearean)

  1. Not Shakespearean; not thematically or stylistically like the works of Shakespeare.
    • The cross-fertilization of Elizabethan drama with French symbolism gave rise to the "Princess Maleine", a new species if there ever was one, Shakespearean in form and incident, most un-Shakespearean in everything else.1916, Edwin E. Slosson, Major Prophets of To-Day, Boston

Forms of unShakespearean

comparativemore unShakespearean
superlativemost unShakespearean

Questions about unShakespearean

What is unShakespearean the alternative form of?
UnShakespearean is the alternative form of un-Shakespearean.

Words near unShakespearean in the dictionary

  1. unshaked
  2. unshaken
  3. unshakenly
  4. unshakenness
  5. unshakes
  6. unShakespearean
  7. unshaking
  8. unshakingly
  9. unshaky
  10. unshale
  11. unshaled

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