"Ubuesque" meaning in English

See Ubuesque in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ubuˈɛsk/ Forms: more Ubuesque [comparative], most Ubuesque [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from French ubuesque. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|fr|ubuesque}} Borrowed from French ubuesque Head templates: {{en-adj}} Ubuesque (comparative more Ubuesque, superlative most Ubuesque)
  1. (uncommon) Reminiscent of Ubu Roi, an early absurdist play; absurdly grotesque. Tags: uncommon Synonyms: ubuesque
    Sense id: en-Ubuesque-en-adj-x2AoJ0Yj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "ubuesque"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French ubuesque",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French ubuesque.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Ubuesque",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most Ubuesque",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Ubuesque (comparative more Ubuesque, superlative most Ubuesque)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Yosefa Loshitzky, The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 35:",
          "text": "The Ubuesque elements in Tout va bien are yet another anti-Hollywood narrative device. The factory manager is portrayed as a contemporary version of Ubu, the hero of Alfred Jarry's trilogy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Reminiscent of Ubu Roi, an early absurdist play; absurdly grotesque."
      ],
      "id": "en-Ubuesque-en-adj-x2AoJ0Yj",
      "links": [
        [
          "absurdly",
          "absurdly"
        ],
        [
          "grotesque",
          "grotesque"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon) Reminiscent of Ubu Roi, an early absurdist play; absurdly grotesque."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ubuesque"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ubuˈɛsk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Ubuesque"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "ubuesque"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French ubuesque",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French ubuesque.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Ubuesque",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most Ubuesque",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Ubuesque (comparative more Ubuesque, superlative most Ubuesque)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms borrowed from French",
        "English terms derived from French",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Yosefa Loshitzky, The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 35:",
          "text": "The Ubuesque elements in Tout va bien are yet another anti-Hollywood narrative device. The factory manager is portrayed as a contemporary version of Ubu, the hero of Alfred Jarry's trilogy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Reminiscent of Ubu Roi, an early absurdist play; absurdly grotesque."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "absurdly",
          "absurdly"
        ],
        [
          "grotesque",
          "grotesque"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon) Reminiscent of Ubu Roi, an early absurdist play; absurdly grotesque."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ubuˈɛsk/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ubuesque"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Ubuesque"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Ubuesque meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (f889f65 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.