Wordie: Eponymous adjectives: Comments

for a more extensive list

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:43:50 +0000

see wikipedia, but that list is way too long to add (nor would I really want to).

Also, it would be darwinian vs darwinism; added some of the others suggested though.

Comment by AbraxasZugzwang, about 1 year ago

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:23:38 +0000

yeah, good point. Knew I left it out of brackets for a reason.

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:02:21 +0000

"Christ-like" is not eponymous, due to the dash. Something like "Christian" would be.

oh

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:21:42 +0000

and draconian, satanic, christ-like, napoleonic (personality)

Here are some more.

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 06:28:13 +0000

sisyphean, faustian, freudian, galilean, darwinian, joycean, Kafkaesque (and, obviously, all other -esque words).

a bit more!

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:23:03 +0000

cartesian, darwinism, newtonian, platonic, aristotelean, sapphic.