Wordnik.com: Adjectives that used to be people: Comments

Comment by nuxiy, 6 months ago

Mon, 18 May 2009 19:35:44 +0000

Kantian, Stirnerian, Schopenhauerian, nuxiyian

Comment by john, about 1 year ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:14:38 +0000

pantagruelian

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:07:51 +0000

Wouldn't oxonian be preferred to oxfordian? Narcissistic? Franciscan? carmelite? Alexandrine? chaotic? Saturnine? Promethean? heraclitean? august? cimmerian?

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:04:38 +0000

namby-pamby, Shavian, mercurial, hermetic

Comment by rolig, about 1 year ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:54 +0000

stentorian would fit here. And if deities are people, then you've got jovial, venereal, martial, apollonian, vestal, plutonian, cereal, etc. And then there are lots from the Bible: adamic, mosaic, johannine, pauline, simoniac, etc., not to mention christian. I apologize if you have already listed some of these.

Comment by sarra, about 1 year ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 13:06:22 +0000

herculean, gargantuan, protean, quixotic, titanic (sometimes)

bowdlerized, galvanized, macadamized, pasteurized?

Comment by dontcry, about 1 year ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 12:10:10 +0000

Far out list. Maybe hip, or a few years earlier, simian, paleolithic or neolithic?

Comment by pterodactyl, about 1 year ago

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:28:07 +0000

Soylent adjectives are people!!!

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:04:20 +0000

Wow, this is a neat list! Found it quite by accident. Might I humbly suggest Jacobean?

Comment by kewpid, over 2 years ago

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:56:10 +0000

Thatcherite

Comment by oroboros, over 2 years ago

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:51:47 +0000

That was William Backus, the notorious myope who was always advising people to 'back off' so he could see them properly?

Comment by seanahan, over 2 years ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:26:58 +0000

Or the fellow in my class who asked "who is the 'back off' method named after?"

Comment by sionnach, over 2 years ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:58:33 +0000

The temptation to compose bogus retronyms and etymologies is, of course, irresistible. For instance, quater, the hamiltonian professor of mathematics after whom quaternions are named. Or burl ives, a popular entertainer of the 20th century who suffered from a rare disorder which caused him occasionally to begin to disrobe on stage, from which the term burlesque is derived. Refer also to ecdysias, mentioned by galen as having the same disorder. and so on.

Comment by sionnach, over 2 years ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:43:20 +0000

my favorite, shavian. Also, jeffersonian. Jacob yields several variations, each with a slightly different nuance - jacobin, jacobian, jacobean, jacobite.

Comment by trivet, over 2 years ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:55:42 +0000

chauvinist

Comment by sonofgroucho, over 2 years ago

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:18:24 +0000

Interesting idea for a list.

Comment by hildjj, over 2 years ago

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:50:08 +0000

Like "grimalkin"

Comment by alguien, over 2 years ago

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:08:06 +0000

There's a name for these: eponymous.

Comment by valse, over 2 years ago

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:45:54 +0000

Manichaean