picaresque

picaresque is a 10-letter English word with 2 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer. Face value is 23 in Scrabble and 26 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 23 · Words With Friends 26 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
2. adjective. involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction

   "picaresque novels"

   "waifs of the picaresque tradition"

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