Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lomanesque

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lo-manesque
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of Willy Loman, an aging salesman in suicidal decline, in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman.

Example Sentences

"Renny works on the tenth floor and this morning she navigates the maze of cubicles like a well trained lab rat, her face set in a Lomanesque expression of one continuing to work long after the job has lost its excitement."
"Rather incredibly, Mills recommended that white-collar Americans adopt a kind of Lomanesque hopelessness and despair, as such a perspective at least acknowledged the unfortunate realities of being middle class in postwar America."

Etymology

From Loman + -esque.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Loman

Inflected Forms

more Lomanesque (comparative) most Lomanesque (superlative)

Questions

What does lomanesque mean?: Characteristic of Willy Loman, an aging salesman in suicidal decline, in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman.
Where does lomanesque come from?: From Loman + -esque.

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