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Meaning of Gigeresque | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

/ɡiɡəɹɛsk/

Definitions

Reminiscent of H. R. Giger (born 1940), Swiss surrealist painter best known for nightmarish biomechanical imagery.

Examples

“Quatermass also mediated Wellsian influence on the tone and preoccupations of the new hybrid SF–horror-film genre, with its monstrous Gigeresque fusions of machine and organism[…]”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

giggish gigglesome gigglier giggliest gigglish giggly