Gigeresque

English

Etymology

Giger +‎ -esque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiɡəɹɛsk/

Adjective

Gigeresque (comparative more Gigeresque, superlative most Gigeresque)

1. Reminiscent of H. R. Giger (born 1940), Swiss surrealist painter best known for nightmarish biomechanical imagery.
   • 2007, Keith Williams, H.G. Wells, modernity and the movies, page 164:

     Quatermass also mediated Wellsian influence on the tone and preoccupations of the new hybrid SF–horror-film genre, with its monstrous Gigeresque fusions of machine and organism […]