cobainesque
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Reminiscent of Kurt Cobain (1967–1994), American grunge musician.
Example Sentences
- "He had a lot of Cobainesque qualities: He had shoulder-length hair, played guitar, had a bad childhood, often complained of stomach problems, and had troubling taste in women."
- "[…] she established a mid-tempo, less-rocking-out standard governing the emotional moments of a certain class of later mature audience artists like Sufjan Stevens in a way that superseded Cobainesque howling."
Etymology
From Cobain + -esque.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Cobainesque (comparative)
most Cobainesque (superlative)