CRR´sList of eponymous adjectives in English
An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from a the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms.
Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.
Christian — Jesus Christ
Dickensian — Charles Dickens
Draconian — Draco
Elizabethan — Queen Elizabeth I
Faustian — The character Faust, written about by Goethe and others
Freudian — Sigmund Freud
Gandhian — Mahatma Gandhi
Gregorian — Pope Gregory I (as in Gregorian chant), Pope Gregory XIII (as in Gregorian calendar)
Jeffersonian — Thomas Jefferson
Jungian — Carl Jung
Kafkaesque — Franz Kafka
Machiavellian — Niccolò Machiavelli (often used to represent views or behavior inconsistent with that of its eponym).
Napoleonic — Napoléon Bonaparte
Orwellian — George Orwell
Rastafarian — Ras Tafari 0(Haile Selassie)
An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from a the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms.
Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.
Christian — Jesus Christ
Dickensian — Charles Dickens
Draconian — Draco
Elizabethan — Queen Elizabeth I
Faustian — The character Faust, written about by Goethe and others
Freudian — Sigmund Freud
Gandhian — Mahatma Gandhi
Gregorian — Pope Gregory I (as in Gregorian chant), Pope Gregory XIII (as in Gregorian calendar)
Jeffersonian — Thomas Jefferson
Jungian — Carl Jung
Kafkaesque — Franz Kafka
Machiavellian — Niccolò Machiavelli (often used to represent views or behavior inconsistent with that of its eponym).
Napoleonic — Napoléon Bonaparte
Orwellian — George Orwell
Rastafarian — Ras Tafari 0(Haile Selassie)
Rubensian_from Peter Paul Rubens
Smithsonian — James Smithson
Socratic — Socrates
Victorian — Queen Victoria
Zoroastrian — Zoroaster(Zarathustra)
Smithsonian — James Smithson
Socratic — Socrates
Victorian — Queen Victoria
Zoroastrian — Zoroaster(Zarathustra)
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