parodic

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adjective

Of, related to, or having characteristics of parody.

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Meanings

adjectiveparodic (comparative more parodic, superlative most parodic)

comparative more parodic · superlative most parodic

  1. Of, related to, or having characteristics of parody.

    All gender is parodic in the sense that it is all imitative, but some forms are more parodic than others because that imitativeness is exposed.

    2005, Moya Lloyd, Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics, page 139
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    From this common background, the G author/redactor seems to have chosen to highlight the more parodic elements in the tradition, while muting the more serious or somber representation of Aesop's heroic end.

    2010, Leslie Kurke, Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose, page 176

    So even the pastiche one might expect to be the most parodic, the fiercest with the "target" author, turns into—at worse^([sic])—an amusing exercise in self-congratulation, of Proust, by Proust.

    2013, James F. Austin, Proust, Pastiche, and the Postmodern: Or Why Style Matters, page 49

    Synonyms: parodial, parodical, parodistic

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveOf, related to, or having characteristics of parody.

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Translations

Catalan paròdic
  • paròdicof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Danish parodisk
  • parodiskof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Dutch parodistisch
  • parodistischof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Finnish parodinen
  • parodinenof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
French parodique
  • parodiqueof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
German parodistisch
  • parodistischof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Italian parodistico, parodico
  • parodisticoof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
  • parodicoof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Norwegian Bokmål parodisk
  • parodiskof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Portuguese paródico
  • paródicoof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Romanian parodic
  • parodicof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Russian пароди́йный
  • пароди́йный (parodíjnyj)of, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Spanish paródico
  • paródicoof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Swedish parodisk
  • parodiskof, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Ukrainian пароді́йний
  • пароді́йний (parodíjnyj)of, related to, or having characteristics of parody
Yiddish פּאַראָדיש
  • פּאַראָדיש (parodish)of, related to, or having characteristics of parody

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