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Kafkaesque

//ˌkæfkəˈʔɛsk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.

    "Kafkaesque bureaucracies"

  2. 2
    Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger.
  3. 3
    In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.
Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to or in the manner of Franz Kafka or his writings wordnet

Etymology

From Kafka + -esque, after writer Franz Kafka. Piecewise doublet of Kafkaish.

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