Daliesque

[ dah-lee-esk ]

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali:

   giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Daliesque¹

First recorded in 1940–45; Dali + -esque

Example Sentences

His painting “Maison hantée” took three months to paint, and the dozens of images, many of them quite disturbing and Dalíesque, reflect the state of the world, he said.

From New York Times

He was dressed in a rather severe dark suit, no one around him, a solitary figure, available for a ruling if called upon, but looking more like a fragile figure in a Daliesque landscape.

From Golf Digest

I clicked the mandala again, and the machine continued writing its Daliesque version of Ross’s Profile, using, in addition to the first prompt, the prose it had already generated to generate from:

From The New Yorker

Take the piggy bank: Once a simple symbol for savings, it’s been transformed under Trump into a Daliesque container of grotesque impossibilities.

From Washington Post

Oscar Akermo, a wispy 22-year-old Swede, does Daliesque portraiture in black and gray ink.

From New York Times

Related Words

• bizarre
• dreamlike
• striking
• surreal
• surrealistic