"Kafkaesque" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌkæfkəˈɛsk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌkæfkəˈɹɛsk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌkɑfkəˈɛsk/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-Kafkaesque-adj.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kafkaesque.wav Forms: more Kafkaesque [comparative], most Kafkaesque [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛsk Etymology: From Kafka + -esque, after writer Franz Kafka. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Kafka|esque}} Kafka + -esque Head templates: {{en-adj}} Kafkaesque (comparative more Kafkaesque, superlative most Kafkaesque)
  1. Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity. Translations (marked by menacing complexity): kafkaesk (Afrikaans), kafkaagtig (Afrikaans), كافايكي [masculine] (Arabic), kafkià [masculine] (Catalan), kafkiana [feminine] (Catalan), kafkovský (Czech), kafkask (Danish), kafkaësk (Dutch), kafkaiaans (Dutch), kafkalik (Estonian), kafkamainen (Finnish), kafkaïen (French), kafkiano [masculine] (Galician), kafkiana [feminine] (Galician), kafkaesk (German), καφκικός (kafkikós) (Greek), קפקאי (kafka'i) (Hebrew), काफ़कएस्क (kāfkaesk) (Hindi), kafkiano (Italian), カフカ的 (Kafukateki) (Japanese), 카프카적이다 (kapeukajeogida) (Korean), kafkiškas (Lithuanian), кафкијански (kafkijanski) (Macedonian), kafkask (Norwegian), کافکاوار (kâfkâvâr) (Persian), کافکاطور (kâfkâtor) (Persian), kafkowski [masculine] (Polish), kafkiano (Portuguese), кафкиа́нский (kafkiánskij) (Russian), kafkijanski (Serbo-Croatian), kafkiano (Spanish), kafkaartad (Swedish), Kafkaartad (Swedish)
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  2. Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger.
    Sense id: en-Kafkaesque-en-adj-~bOIz1nx
  3. In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.
    Sense id: en-Kafkaesque-en-adj-78SDmc~P
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Kafkaian, Kafkatrap, Kafkian, Dickensian, Orwellian

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    },
    {
      "word": "Dickensian"
    },
    {
      "word": "Orwellian"
    }
  ],
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Kafkaesque bureaucracies",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, David Flusser, Jesus (3d ed; Jerusalem: Magnes), page 250",
          "text": "In the end, Jesus is not only a Kafkaesque, lonely, holy man, abandoned in his death and despised by his own people, but his teaching is not even considered to be like that of the Jewish Sages.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, L. Donskis, Modernity in Crisis: A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging",
          "text": "The world is increasingly becoming a Single Central Europe with its Kafkaesque anonymity, Musilesque human-traits-free individuality, or the divided individual without individuality and indivisibility, Orwellesque Newspeak and total control, if not manufacturing, of history.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity."
      ],
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        [
          "senseless",
          "senseless"
        ],
        [
          "disorient",
          "disorient"
        ],
        [
          "menacing",
          "menacing"
        ],
        [
          "complexity",
          "complexity"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surreal",
          "surreal"
        ],
        [
          "distortion",
          "distortion"
        ],
        [
          "danger",
          "danger"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka."
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˌkæfkəˈɛsk/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌkæfkəˈɹɛsk/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌkɑfkəˈɛsk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛsk"
    },
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkaesk"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkaagtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "كافايكي"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kafkià"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kafkiana"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkovský"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkask"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkaësk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkaiaans"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkalik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkamainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkaïen"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kafkiano"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kafkiana"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkaesk"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kafkikós",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "καφκικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "kafka'i",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "קפקאי"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "kāfkaesk",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "काफ़कएस्क"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkiano"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Kafukateki",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "カフカ的"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "kapeukajeogida",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "카프카적이다"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkiškas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kafkijanski",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "кафкијански"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkask"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kâfkâvâr",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "کافکاوار"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kâfkâtor",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "کافکاطور"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kafkowski"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkiano"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kafkiánskij",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "кафкиа́нский"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkijanski"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkiano"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "kafkaartad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "marked by menacing complexity",
      "word": "Kafkaartad"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Kafkaesque"
}
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