Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Franz Kafka or his writings.
- adjective Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Frightening, threating, and bewildering in a vague and unexplicable way; -- of situations or regulations. Often used to describe illogical bureaucratic entanglements with no reasonable solution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Marked by a
senseless ,disorienting , oftenmenacing complexity . - adjective Marked by
surreal distortion and often a sense of impendingdanger . - adjective In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or in the manner of Franz Kafka or his writings
- adjective characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger
Etymologies
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Examples
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Who on Earth would think to teach their child the term Kafkaesque long before the boy will ever read Kaftka and when his field trips to the library are spent smearing his own pre-teen ejaculate on hardcover classics?
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Here, then, are some other adjectives which the legal community might consider adopting, where Kafkaesque is less than appropriate.
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Here, then, are some other adjectives which the legal community might consider adopting, where Kafkaesque is less than appropriate.
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Kafkaesque is a good term for trends in the United States today.
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Kafkaesque is a good term for trends in the United States today.
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Kafkaesque is a good term for trends in the United States today.
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Kafkaesque is a good term for trends in the United States today.
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Kafkaesque is a good term for trends in the United States today.
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Kafkaesque is a good term for trends in the United States today.
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Kafkaesque is a good term for trends in the United States today.
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