kitchen-sinky

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Encompassing an excessively broad range of features or elements, often leading to diminished efficiency or reduced practical utility.
  2. Of or pertaining to kitchen sink realism; depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

kitchen-sinky more kitchen-sinky most kitchen-sinky kitchen sinky

Etymology

From kitchen sink + -y. Sense 1 alludes to the phrase everything but the kitchen sink, sense 2 to the phrase kitchen sink realism.

Related words

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