carnivalesque

comparative more carnivalesque · superlative most carnivalesque

1. Resembling or characteristic of a carnival.

   carnivalesque celebrations

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   The market has a lively, carnivalesque atmosphere.

   Later representations at court would intensify the carnivalesque parodying of kingly figures to the point of converting them almost into buffoonesque figures […]

   2010, Julio Vélez-Sainz (editor: Frederick A. De Armas), “Eros, Vates, Imperium”, in Ovid in Age of Cervantes, Toronto: University of Toronto Press

   Separated by a winding five-mile road but unified in spirit, they embody all that is carnivalesque, yet comfortable, about an old roadside souvenir shop — just supersized.

   2009 January 16, Austin Considine, “A Return to Kitsch Mountain”, in New York Times

   “Euphoria” is a big, vulgar, carnivalesque thing—an extreme, often-disgusting vision of a rapacious, pitiless America where everyone is fighting for scraps before Empire finally collapses and God turns off the lights.

   2026 April 18, Naomi Fry, ““Euphoria” ’s Descent Into Hell”, in The New Yorker