kafkaesque

IPA: kˈɑfkʌˈɛsk

Root Word: Kafkaesque

adjective

  • Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
  • Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger.
  • In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.
Advertisement

Examples of "kafkaesque" in Sentences

  • Something like that kafkaesque enough for you Jim?
  • This is kafkaesque and people wonder why they can't stand dems.
  • Let's talk about ways to eliminate conflict, so this ridiculous kafkaesque environment ends some day.
  • Listening to the bank explain how it missed even the simplest safeguards (having a signature card for example) was kafkaesque.
  • “France is definitely alone in the world with its kafkaesque administrative machinery, an expensive mechanism for arbitrary punishment,” said La Quadrature du Net.
  • The ruling has the art world's appropriators reeling—one blogger called the ruling "kafkaesque"—as the rarefied, anything-goes realm of conceptual art runs up against the hard-nosed realities of intellectual-property rights.
  • As well as Beckett, Kafka seems never far - Brick's situation pretty well fits popular understandings of the word kafkaesque (the second time I've (mis) used it this week) - and the echo in the name of Brill's granddaughter, Katya, is hardly accidental.

Related Links

synonyms for kafkaesque
Advertisement
#AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz

© 2025 Copyright: WordPapa