Gigeresque

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/ɡiɡəɹɛsk/

adjective

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

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Meanings

adjectiveGigeresque (comparative more Gigeresque, superlative most Gigeresque)

comparative more Gigeresque · superlative most Gigeresque

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

    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[…]

    2007, Keith Williams, H.G. Wells, modernity and the movies, page 164

Origin

From Giger + -esque.

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Chicago

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