Usually means: Subversion through humor and chaos.
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  1. carnivalesque: Merriam-Webster
  2. carnivalesque: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carnivalesque: Collins English Dictionary
  4. carnivalesque: Wordnik
  5. carnivalesque: Wiktionary
  6. carnivalesque: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. carnivalesque: Dictionary.com
  8. Carnivalesque: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. carnivalesque: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carnivalesque)

▸ adjective:  Resembling or characteristic of a carnival.

Similar:
carnivalic, carnivallike, circuslike, festivally, circusy, caravanlike, feastlike, farcelike, paradelike, cannibalish, more...

Opposite:
sober, serious, restrained, formal, somber

Adjectives:
bakhtinian, most, literary, special, sexual, augustinian, medieval

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Similar:
carnivalic, carnivallike, circuslike, festivally, circusy, caravanlike, feastlike, farcelike, paradelike, cannibalish, more...

Opposite:
sober, serious, restrained, formal, somber

Adjectives:
bakhtinian, most, literary, special, sexual, augustinian, medieval



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