Transgressive

Word TRANSGRESSIVE
Character 13
Hyphenation trans gress ive
Pronunciations /tɹænzˈɡɹɛsɪv/

Definitions and meanings of "Transgressive"

What do we mean by transgressive?

Exceeding a limit or boundary, especially of social acceptability. adjective

Of or relating to a genre of fiction, filmmaking, or art characterized by graphic depictions of behavior that violate socially acceptable norms, often involving violence, drug use, and sexual deviancy. adjective

Of or relating to geological transgression. adjective

Inclined or apt to transgress; faulty; sinful; culpable.

Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. adjective

Involving transgression; that passes beyond some limit; sinful. adjective

Going beyond generally accepted boundaries; violating usual practice, subversive. adjective

A form of verb in some languages.

An individual who transgresses, or breaks social rules.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Transgressive

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The word "transgressive" in example sentences

It adds to the discomfiture that this soft-spoken ex-journalist -- who cheerfully labels his work "transgressive" -- looks uncannily like Anthony Perkins circa Psycho. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Shakespeare, who understood this best, subtitled his transgressive play What You Will. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Shakespeare, who understood this best, subtitled his transgressive play What You Will'. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Aliens – one which has been described as transgressive, and the other which is a delightful family romp. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They tap into our adolescent power fantasies; their hollow-point bloodshed seems transgressive, which is why video games are to this century what rock 'n' roll was to the last. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Both she and The Duchess of Nothing itself are much more convincingly "transgressive" of established norms -- of female behavior and of conventional "psychological realism" -- than other novels sometimes accorded that label. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Notwithstanding that most of them were "transgressive," when at all, in rather tepid and formally uninteresting ways, I simply was unable to understand what they shared in common that made them "interfictions." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The former might be called "transgressive" experiments that overrun the extant boundaries observed by most readers, critics, and other writers, while the latter might be regarded as "local" experiments that challenge "normal" practice but do so from within the boundary that otherwise marks off the still-familiar from the disconcertingly new. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Does it merely have to be "transgressive" of genre boundaries? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Needless to say these choices have implications in terms of meaning and provide some of what the group consider the "transgressive" nature of their work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It tells us a great deal, I think, that terms like "transgressive" and "challenging" have emerged as among the highest words of praise in the critical lexicon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So it's this kind of transgressive graffiti that can appear anywhere, with words and sentences very hard to understand, but that bare a message. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's because Fox News uses the Panthers the way that Phil Donohue used to use the KKK or G.G. Allin [a punk-rock performer known for "transgressive" acts]. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He or she will be worshiped as a "transgressive" god or goddess by fans, while defenders of morality/talent will denounce him or her as undermining traditional family values/traditional notions of musical ability. ❋ Robert Brenner (2010)

So we salute your uniquely squiggly and "transgressive" lines while listening to the lines, and strains, of your own poignantly penned song, "Lost in the City." ❋ Unknown (2010)

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