Incestuous (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Resembling incest as by excessive intimacy.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The overly dependent and enmeshed relationship between the twins was starting to look incestuous to outsiders.
- Their intensely private and secluded lives gave rise to whispers of an incestuous affair between the siblings.
- Critics have long accused the music industry of having an incestuous relationship with itself, where artists constantly collaborate and influence each other in insular ways.
- The clique's excessive and claustrophobic camaraderie seemed almost incestuous, with its members barely ever interacting with outsiders.
- Some argued that the aristocracy's long history of marrying within the nobility had led to an incestuous network of family ties that was both morally dubious and socially suffocating.
Related Words
Meaning 2
Relating to or involving incest.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).