Adjective: hobbitesque
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more hobbitesque |
| Superlative | most hobbitesque |
Sample Sentences
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This lack of a new generation of these Hobbitesque living sculptures becomes more serious as the older ones die or are removed for whatever reason and are not replaced. [2005, Dan Dagget, Gardeners of Eden: Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature, Thatcher Charitable Trust, page 97:]
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The separate entrance to the bedrooms is hobbitesque. It leads to four rooms, all leading in turn to a mystical spiral staircase. [2008, Ecoescape: Ireland, Markham Publishing, page 30:]
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It [Homo floresiensis] dominated conversation at our little bash: how this hobbitesque species could have existed as recently as 12,000 years ago, their skeletons like Homo erectus, but their bodies and brains tiny. [2015, T.R. Richmond, What She Left, Penguin Books, page 300:]
Adjectives inflected like hobbitesque
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
From hobbit + -esque. Piecewise doublet of hobbitish.