dadaistic
- adjective
- /ˌdɑːdəˈɪstɪk/
- Literature
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dadaísta
- In a dadaistic twist, the play featured absurd dialogues that broke all conventions of traditional storytelling.
- a dadaistic person
Examples
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Beneath the exhibition's title on the front cover, a more substantial statement by Hausmann also appears upside down: "The Dadaistic person is the radical opponent of exploitation; the logic of exploitation creates nothing but fools, and the Dadaistic person hates stupidity and loves nonsense!
Academic text (2003) -
Thus, the Dadaistic person shows himself to be truly real, as opposed to the stinking hypocrisy of the patriarch and capitalist perishing in his armchair.
Academic text (2003) -
In terms of fiction, we do not have to be afraid of such results because realistic novels are no "less fictional" than a Dadaistic poem or a love romance, although the last mentioned genre is of lesser aesthetic value.
Academic text (2006) -
Beneath the exhibition's title on the front cover, a more substantial statement by Hausmann also appears upside down: "The Dadaistic person is the radical opponent of exploitation; the logic of exploitation creates nothing but fools, and the Dadaistic person hates stupidity and loves nonsense!
Academic text (2003) -
The artist's latest work was so dadaistic that it left the audience questioning the very nature of art.
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Her dadaistic approach to poetry involved using random words and phrases to create unexpected meanings.
Synonyms
Related to the Dada art movement and showing absurd or silly ideas that reject usual art rules
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Surface Forms
Morphology
dadaistic = Dadaist (transparent) = dada + ist + ic
The immediate step from 'Dadaist' to 'dadaistic' is regular adjectival suffixation (-ic) and is directly interpretable as 'relating to a Dadaist or Dada'.
Etymology
Dadaistic comes from the art group Dada, whose name began as a playful, childlike word — in French dada means 'hobbyhorse', and the artists picked it because it sounded random and silly. So, something dadaistic is meant to be absurd and to reject ordinary rules.