Comic-adjacent
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Similar to or suggestive of comics.
"Some part of Aronofsky may want to evoke the darkly funny mishaps of a vintage crime comedy, but something else keeps coaxing him halfway down dark alleyways, before the movie scrambles back into more comic-adjacent urgency."
Example
More examples"Some part of Aronofsky may want to evoke the darkly funny mishaps of a vintage crime comedy, but something else keeps coaxing him halfway down dark alleyways, before the movie scrambles back into more comic-adjacent urgency."
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