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Meaning of Hemingwayesque | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist, or the understated quality of his prose or the themes he wrote about, including war, wilderness, love, and loss.

Examples

“White contrasted the spare, "chastened" Hemingwayesque school of straight writing with gay writers like Proust (and Edmund White too) who were "free to indulge in ornament."”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

heminodal hemiolic hemiopic hemiorbicular hemiparalytic hemiparasitic

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