Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective informal Resembling or characteristic of cyberpunk.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

cyberpunk +‎ -ish

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word cyberpunkish.

Examples

  • I am afraid the only one I really liked was the exception to this setting, the near-future cyberpunkish Left to his Own Devices; the rest all lost me somewhere between the showing and the telling.

    October Books 17) White Crow, by Mary Gentle nwhyte 2009

  • While stylish and managing to combine Norse poetry with a bit of the down and out cyberpunkish flavour the story does meander a bit in between the punchy starts and finishes.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: All the Windwracked Stars - Elizabeth Bear Blue Tyson 2008

  • And the evocation of cyberpunkish themes, from the dark future visual style to surveillance to dull/creepy business meetings.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education 2009

  • And the evocation of cyberpunkish themes, from the dark future visual style to surveillance to dull/creepy business meetings.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Fear the mobile phone to buy the mobile phone 2009

  • And the evocation of cyberpunkish themes, from the dark future visual style to surveillance to dull/creepy business meetings.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: 2009

  • Hardwired was one of the first books I tried to copy when I started trying to write fiction of my own; the result was what it was, I was 14 or 15 and I mostly wrote “cyberpunkish” fiction for my role playing games, and, well, as a teenager I wrote teenage stuff.

    Re-Reading Hardwired Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • And the evocation of cyberpunkish themes, from the dark future visual style to surveillance to dull/creepy business meetings.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Haunted Spaces: Cyberspace Gothic 2009

  • The weirdest is "" Aeon Flux, '' a creepily cyberpunkish fantasy about a female mercenary who looks like a dominatrix and behaves like a psychopath.

    Beyond Beavis And Butt-Head 2008

  • With shots of a cyberpunkish Keanu Reeves making gravity-defying leaps and dodging bullets (the table on page two explains how the brothers went beyond that freeze-frame trick from the Gap ad), the film's Super Bowl trailer hinted that this would be the first movie since "Terminator 2" with truly "how'd they do that?" special effects.

    Maximizing The Matrix 2008

  • While stylish and managing to combine Norse poetry with a bit of the down and out cyberpunkish flavour the story does meander a bit in between the punchy starts and finishes.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Blue Tyson 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.