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Favorite Adjectives Derived From Proper Nouns
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Avatar Image   Started by patrick_levell patrick_levell has 23,015 Grupie Points 1 year ago         Comments Add a comment

Proper Nouns - People and Places of myth, fiction or history, transformed into adjectives. Your favorites?

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Kafkaesque

A favorite, though frequently misused adjective.
http://www.hyperdict...ne=Kafkaesque

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Freudian

as in slip http://www.hyperdic.net/dic/freudian.htm... [show more]

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Darwinian

...Dawkins on my mind...

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Orwellian

Often preceded by the word "dark."

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Pyrrhic (victory)

(No description provided)

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Cartesian

(No description provided)

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Terpsichorean

(No description provided)

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Brobdingnagian

of huge size; gigantic; tremendous after Brobdingnag, a country in Swift's Gulliver's Travels... [show more]

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Gaussian

"Gaussian - of or relating to Karl Gauss or his mathematical theories of magnetics or electricity or astronomy or probability; "Ga... [show more]

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Spenserian

(No description provided)

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Stentorian

(No description provided)

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Google-Fu

Most people can Google, but few aspire to become blackbelts in Google-Fu

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Pythagorean

(No description provided)

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Nietzschean

(No description provided)

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This topic was started by patrick_levell patrick_levell has 23,015 Grupie Points on December 11th, 2006. 20 grupies have voted on one or more of the 19 answers.

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