Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gibsonesque

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gib-sonesque
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Reminiscent of the guitars made by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

adj

Reminiscent of the works of William Gibson (born 1948), American-Canadian novelist and essayist who popularized the science fiction concept of cyberspace.

Example Sentences

"Rather than Gibsonesque warnings of the extinction of individuality in corporate hyperspace, for instance, current African writers tentatively advance versions of virtual identity that centre around relative location in motion."
"Chang even invoked American-Canadian sci-fi cyberpunk author William Gibson, talking of Dizzee's Gibsonesque “mirror-world” in which “patterns [are] de/recontextualized at the edge of recognition and seen in syrupy slo-mo.”"

Etymology

From Gibson + -esque.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Gibson

Inflected Forms

more Gibsonesque (comparative) most Gibsonesque (superlative)

Questions

What does gibsonesque mean?: Reminiscent of the guitars made by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
Where does gibsonesque come from?: From Gibson + -esque.

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