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picaresque

/,p/I/k/@/'r/E/sk/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

  1. Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish <i>picaro</i>, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

    adjective

    Source: webster1913

adjective satellite

  1. involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction

    adj.all

    Examples
    Picaresque novels.
    Waifs of the picaresque tradition.
    A picaresque hero.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

Nearby words

picamarpicaninnypicaparepicardpicardiepicardypicari&aelig;picariaepicarianpicaroonpicassopicayune

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