un-Shakespearean

adjective

Not Shakespearean; not thematically or stylistically like the works of Shakespeare.

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Meanings

adjectiveun-Shakespearean (comparative more un-Shakespearean, superlative most un-Shakespearean)

comparative more un-Shakespearean · superlative most un-Shakespearean · alternative unShakespearean

  1. Not Shakespearean; not thematically or stylistically like the works of Shakespeare.

    The cross-fertilization of Elizabethan drama with French symbolism gave rise to the "Princess Maleine", a new species if there ever was one, Shakespearean in form and incident, most un-Shakespearean in everything else.

    1916, Edwin E. Slosson, Major Prophets of To-Day, Boston

Origin

From un- + Shakespearean.

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APA

un-Shakespearean. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/un-Shakespearean

MLA

“un-Shakespearean.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/un-Shakespearean. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “un-Shakespearean,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/un-Shakespearean.

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