Meanings
comparative more Heath Robinsonesque · superlative most Heath Robinsonesque
- Ingenious, and often complex, but absurdly impractical or even useless.
Putting it all together: the cassette’s been run through a labelling machine, and now this Heath Robinsonesque device adds the inlay and the box in one swift operation, taking about three seconds for each cassette.
1987, Barnaby Page, How to copy half a million cassettes (in Crash magazine issue 47, December 1987)Synonyms: rubegoldbergian
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveIngenious, and often complex, but absurdly impractical or even useless.
Origin
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Heath Robinsonesque. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Heath%20Robinsonesque
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