caricaturesco
Spanish
Etymology
From caricatura + -esco.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɾikatuˈɾesko/ [ka.ɾi.ka.t̪uˈɾes.ko]
- Rhymes: -esko
- Syllabification: ca‧ri‧ca‧tu‧res‧co
Adjective
caricaturesco (feminine caricaturesca, masculine plural caricaturescos, feminine plural caricaturescas)
- caricaturesque
- absurd, ridiculous
- 2015 October 11, “Cli-Fi: la literatura que predice el cambio climático”, in El País[1]:
- Todo un poco caricaturesco y cómico que provocan ganas de reír a carcajadas de algo que no tiene, en realidad, ni puñetera gracia.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “caricaturesco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024