kitchen-sinky
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Encompassing an excessively broad range of features or elements, often leading to diminished efficiency or reduced practical utility.
Informal
adj
Of or pertaining to kitchen sink realism; depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.
Example Sentences
- "Don't buy a [back]pack with loads of extra kitchen sinky bits unless you'll be using them frequently."
- "It is not kitchen-sinky if we understand a kitchen-sink not simply [as] a language very loaded with various grammatical and phonological features but only a language where they are only for their own sake and don't make a functional system together."
- "I'm sure there are subjects I could have covered, but I didn't want it to get too kitchen-sinky."
- ""How to Read a Word" includes quite a bit of related material, including a slightly kitchen-sinky collection of "word stories," investigating words such as wordhoard, skulduggery, and yes, lexicographer; […]"
- "Not that Warner's is merely a domesticated version of Euripides. It stars, after all, that least kitchen-sinky of actors."
- ""Here was a kid who was imagining things and inventing things and none of this was odd to her, mum and dad being junkies. I didn't want to comment; I just present the story. And I didn't want to be too kitchen-sinky, because it's a heightened reality.""
Etymology
From kitchen sink + -y. Sense 1 alludes to the phrase everything but the kitchen sink, sense 2 to the phrase kitchen sink realism.