parodic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, related to, or having characteristics of parody.
Example Sentences
- "All gender is parodic in the sense that it is all imitative, but some forms are more parodic than others because that imitativeness is exposed."
- "From this common background, the G author/redactor seems to have chosen to highlight the more parodic elements in the tradition, while muting the more serious or somber representation of Aesop's heroic end."
- "So even the pastiche one might expect to be the most parodic, the fiercest with the "target" author, turns into—at worse^([sic])—an amusing exercise in self-congratulation, of Proust, by Proust."
Inflected Forms
more parodic (comparative)
most parodic (superlative)