pokémon-esque
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of the Pokémon franchise or the creatures featured in it.
Example Sentences
- "Haddock’s online project, titled “Screenshots”(whitelead.com/jrh/screenshots), uses the poppy, Pokémon-esque style of kiddie computer games to re-create some of the most incendiary scenes in recent memory (the Columbine killers in the cafeteria, the Rodney King beating, Elián and the feds)."
- "While old-school fans might believe that the whole Armada setting manages to desecrate our fond childhood memories of the original series by changing virtually everything (‘Megatron, a tank? That’s rubbish!’), Transformers turns this negative into a pretty convincing positive thanks to those damn Minicons – the small and almost Pokémon[-]esque robots that seem to be so important to today’s transforming machine."
- "Cards, collected around the map, are used to send Pokémon-esque monsters into battle."
- "Fantastical beasties from authentic Celtic lore serve as Pokémon'''-esque companions on the duo’s intertwining quest, so the monster-wrangling is both addicting and educational here."
- "Did you know that the world is absolutely teeming with tiny monsters that are invisible to the naked eye? Oh, it’s totally true. Fortunately, a Sony scientist recently discovered that the PSP camera can detect these Pokémon-esque creatures just fine."
- "Ari played a Pokémon-esque character in our musical performance."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puhô Frankish *pokōbor. Old French poche Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Latin -ittus Old French -ete Anglo-Norman poketbor. Middle English pocket English pocketbor. Japanese ポケット Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti Proto-Italic *man-eje- Proto-Italic *moneō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Proto-Italic *monestrom Latin mōnstrumbor. Old French monstrebor. Middle English monstre English monsterbor. Japanese モンスター Japanese ポケットモンスターclip. Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon)bor. English Pokémon Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Vulgar Latin -iscus Italian -escobor. French -esquebor. English -esque English Pokémon-esque From Pokémon + -esque.