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-esque
an adjective suffix indicating style, manner, resemblance, or distinctive character.
arabesque; Romanesque; picturesque.
-esque
suffix
indicating a specified character, manner, style, or resemblance
picturesque
Romanesque
statuesque
Chaplinesque
Word History and Origins
Origin of -esque1
Example Sentences
But not at the Love Hotel, aka the swanky resort that producers have turned into a “Bachelor in Paradise”-esque setting for Housewives to get their groove back during the off-season.
But I was intrigued by the time capsule–esque idea of writing something that would only come back to me at a later time.
In an early cut of 1977’s “Star Wars,” George Lucas included a shaggy, chatty “Graffiti”-esque sequence between Luke Skywalker and one of his Tatooine pals, Biggs, who tells him, “I’m not going to wait for the Empire to draft me into service. The Rebellion is spreading and I want to be on the right side.”
An underappreciated aspect of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign was an absence of something that defined his 2016 and 2020 campaigns: constant Gossip Girl–esque internal drama spilling into hourly push alerts.
I was really inspired by the concept of surveillance, as well as the idea of being perceived and how we grapple with the contradictions and paradoxes of that, which is very “Quantum Baby”-esque.
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