Word: Dadaesque
Part of speech: Adjective
Syllables: da
da
esque
Definition: Reminiscent of the surrealistic Dada movement.
Morphemes:
Affix: Dada
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.
Affix: -esque
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Resembling; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -iscus
Language: la
Decoded: -iscus
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form adjectives