rocambolesco
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French rocambolesque.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
rocambolesco (feminine rocambolesca, masculine plural rocamboleschi, feminine plural rocambolesche)
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French rocambolesque.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
rocambolesco (feminine rocambolesca, masculine plural rocambolescos, feminine plural rocambolescas)
- fantastic, unbelievable, far-fetched
- 2021 February 27, Carles Porta, “La farmacéutica de Olot, 492 días secuestrada”, in El País[1], retrieved 2021-02-28:
- Sin embargo ―caprichos del destino― empezaba a asomar otra pesadilla, tan malévola y rocambolesca como la que la precedía o quizá incluso peor.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- odd, bizarre
Further reading edit
- “rocambolesco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014