picaresque

1. 1.

   involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction

   “picaresque novels”

   “waifs of the picaresque tradition”

   “a picaresque hero”

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Questions about picaresque

What does picaresque mean?

picaresque means "involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction".

How many syllables are in picaresque?

picaresque has 3 syllables: picar-e-sque. The stress falls on "sque". In IPA it is /ˌpɪkəˈɹɛsk/.

Is picaresque a common word?

picaresque is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.