Adjective: funambulesque
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more funambulesque |
| Superlative | most funambulesque |
Sample Sentences
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Visitors to the Salon du Camp de Mars cannot fail to have noticed a full-length portrait by Whistler, the portrait of a gentleman of somewhat uncertain age, standing in an attitude half chivalrous, half funambulesque, his hand lightly posed on a small cane. [1918, Arthur Symons, Colour Studies in Paris, page 49:]
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Some aristocrats in Royal Hungary rather agreed with the Transylvanians, but others – a sufficient number – were relieved to be under Habsburg protection and saw Transylvania as semi-orientalized, disloyal and religiously funambulesque. [2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 156:]
Adjectives inflected like funambulesque
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology