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An eponymous adjective is an
adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called
eponyms .
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Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.
A–C
Aaronic –
Aaron (as in
Aaronic Priesthood )
Abbasid –
Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (as in
Abbasid dynasty )
abelian –
Niels Henrik Abel (as in
Abelian group )
Abrahamic –
Abraham (as in
Abrahamic religions )
Adamic –
Adam (as in
Adamic language ); also Adamite (as in
pre-Adamite race )
Addisonian –
Thomas Addison (as in
Addisonian crisis )
Adlerian –
Alfred Adler (as in
Classical Adlerian psychology )
Aegean –
Aegeus , of Greek mythology (as in
Aegean Sea )
Aeolian –
Aeolus , of Greek mythology (as in
Aeolian Islands ); also Eolian (as in
Eolian processes )
Aeschylean –
Aeschylus (as in
Aeschylean silence )
Aesopian –
Aesop the Ancient Greek fabulist. (Also, conveying an innocent meaning to an outsider but a hidden meaning to a member of a conspiracy or underground movement.)
Ahmadiyya –
Ahmad (as in
Ahmadiyya )
Aldine –
Aldus Manutius (as in
Aldine Press )
Alexandrine –
Alexander the Great (as in
Alexandrine verse ); also Alexandrian (as in
Alexandrian period )
American –
Amerigo Vespucci
Amish –
Jakob Ammann
Ampèrian –
André-Marie Ampère (as in Ampèrian loop )
Anacreontic –
Anacreon
Andrean –
Andrew the Apostle (as in
Andrean High School )
Antonian –
St. Anthony the Great (as in Antonian
monasticism );
Antoninus Pius (as in
Nervan-Antonian dynasty )
Antonine –
Antoninus Pius (as in
Antonine Wall );
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (as in
Antonine Plague )
Apollonian –
Apollo , of Greek mythology (as in
Apollonian Oracle );
Apollonius of Perga (as in
Apollonian gasket )
Archimedean –
Archimedes (as in
Archimedean screw )
Arian –
Arius
Aristotelian –
Aristotle (as in
Aristotelian logic )
Arminian –
Jacobus Arminius
Arsacid –
Arsaces I of Parthia (as in Arsacid dynasty )
Arthurian –
King Arthur (as in
Arthurian legend )
Artinian –
Emil Artin (as in
Artinian ring )
Ashmolean –
Elias Ashmole (as in
Ashmolean Museum )
Asimovian –
Isaac Asimov (as in
Asimovian robot )
Athanasian –
St. Athanasius (as in
Athanasian Creed )
Athenian –
Athena , of Greek mythology
Atlantean –
Atlas ; also Atlantic
Augustan –
Caesar Augustus (as in
Augustan drama )
Augustinian –
St. Augustine (as in
Augustinian Order )
bacchanal –
Bacchus , of Roman mythology; also "
bacchanalian "
Bachian –
Johann Sebastian Bach
Baconian –
Francis Bacon (as in
Baconian cipher )
Baháʼí –
Bahá'u'lláh (as in
Baháʼí Faith )
Bakerian –
Henry Baker (as in
Bakerian Lecture )
Bakhtinian –
Mikhail Bakhtin
Ballardian –
J. G. Ballard
Bangsian –
John Kendrick Bangs (as in
Bangsian fantasy )
Barthesian –
Roland Barthes
Batesian –
Henry Walter Bates (as in
Batesian mimicry )
Bayesian –
Thomas Bayes (as in
Bayesian probability )
Beethovenian –
Ludwig van Beethoven
Benedictine –
Benedict of Nursia (as in
Benedictine Rule )
Benthamite –
Jeremy Bentham (as in
Benthamite Utilitarianism )
Berkeleyan –
George Berkeley (as in
Berkeleyan idealism )
Blairite –
Tony Blair
Bodleian –
Thomas Bodley (as in
Bodleian Library )
Bohmian –
David Bohm (as in
Bohmian mechanics )
Bolivarian –
Simón Bolívar (as in
Bolivarian Revolution )
Boolean –
George Boole (as in
Boolean algebra ,
Boolean logic )
Borgesian –
Jorge Luis Borges
Boulléesque –
Etienne-Louis Boullée
Bradmanesque –
Donald Bradman
Brahmsian –
Johannes Brahms
Brechtian –
Bertolt Brecht (as in
Brechtian acting )
Brownian –
Robert Brown (as in
Brownian motion )
Brunonian –
John Brown , the doctor (as in
Brunonian system of medicine )
Buddhist –
Gautama Buddha (as in
Buddhist rosary )
Burkean –
Edmund Burke (as in Burkean conservatism )
Byronic –
Lord Byron (as in
Byronic hero )
Caesarean – often incorrectly attributed to
Julius Caesar (as in
Caesarean section )
Calvinist –
John Calvin (as in
Calvinist Church )
Capetian –
Hugh Capet (as in
Capetian dynasty ,
Direct Capetians )
Capraesque –
Frank Capra
Carolean –
Charles II of England (as in
Carolean style )
Carolean –
Charles XI of Sweden and
Charles XII of Sweden (as in
Carolean soldiers )
Caroline –
Charles I of England (as in
Caroline era ); also Carolinian
Carolingian –
Charlemagne (as in
Carolingian dynasty )
Carrollian –
Lewis Carroll , pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Carterian –
James Carter (as in
In Carterian Fashion )
Cartesian –
René Descartes (as in
Cartesian coordinate )
Catilinarian –
Catiline (as in
Catilinarian conspiracy )
Chandleresque –
Raymond Chandler
Chaucerian –
Geoffrey Chaucer (as in
Chaucerian stanza )
chauvinistic –
Nicolas Chauvin
Chekhovian –
Anton Chekhov
Chestertonian –
G. K. Chesterton
Chomskyan –
Noam Chomsky ; also Chomskian
Chopinesque –
Frédéric Chopin
Chretienite -
Jean Chrétien
Christian –
Jesus Christ
Churchillian –
Winston Churchill
Churrigueresque –
José Benito de Churriguera
Ciceronian –
Cicero
Clarissine –
Clare of Assisi
Claudian –
Claudius (as in
Julio-Claudian dynasty )
Clintonian –
Bill Clinton
Columbian –
Christopher Columbus (as in
Columbian Exchange )
Confucianist –
Confucius
Constantinian –
Constantine I (as in
Constantinian dynasty )
Coolidgean –
Calvin Coolidge
Copernican –
Nicolaus Copernicus (as in
Copernican heliocentrism )
Cronenbergian –
David Cronenberg
Cromwellian –
Oliver Cromwell
Croonian –
William Croone (as in
Croonian Lecture )
Cushingoid –
Harvey Cushing – American physician
Cyrillic –
St. Cyril (as in
Cyrillic )
D–F
G–J
Galilean –
Galileo Galilei (as in
Galilean moons )
Galvanic –
Luigi Galvani (as in
Galvanic cell )
Gandhian –
Mahatma Gandhi (as in
Gandhian economics )
gargantuan –
Gargantua ,
Rabelais 's fictional character
Gaullist –
Charles de Gaulle
Gaussian –
Carl Friedrich Gauss (as in
Gaussian function )
Genghisid –
Genghis Khan
Georgian – any of the first 4 Hanoverian kings of England (all named George)
Georgist –
Henry George (as in
Georgism )
Gilliamesque –
Terry Gilliam (similar to Kafkaesque and Pythonesque , said of films, animations, and scenarios)
Gladstonian –
William Ewart Gladstone (as in
Gladstonian Liberalism )
Gödelian –
Kurt Gödel (as in Gödelian incompleteness )
Goulstonian –
Theodore Goulston (as in
Goulstonian Lecture )
Gregorian –
Pope Gregory I (as in
Gregorian chant );
Pope Gregory XIII (as in
Gregorian calendar )
Gricean –
Paul Grice (as in
Gricean maxims )
Grundtvigian –
N. F. S. Grundtvig (as in Grundtvigian Lutheranism )
Hadrianic – Roman emperor
Hadrian
Handelian –
George Frideric Handel
Hamiltonian – Sir
William Rowan Hamilton (as in
Hamiltonian path );
Alexander Hamilton (as in Hamiltonian economic program )
Hamitic –
Ham (as in
Hamitic languages )
Harperite -
Stephen Harper
Harveian –
William Harvey (as in
Harveian Oration )
Haydnesque –
Joseph Haydn
Hayekian –
Friedrich Hayek (as in
Hayekian triangle )
Hegelian –
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (as in
Hegelian dialectic )
Heideggerian -
Martin Heidegger
Henrician –
King Henry VIII (as in
Henrician Reformation );
Henry III of France (as in
Henrician Articles )
herculean –
Hercules , of Greek mythology (as in
herculean task )
hermaphroditic –
Hermaphroditus , of Greek mythology
hermetic –
Hermes Trismegistus , a mythological alchemist (as in
hermetic seal )
Hermitian –
Charles Hermite (as in
Hermitian matrix )
Herodian –
Herod the Great (as in
Herodian dynasty )
Heronian –
Hero of Alexandria (as in
Heronian triangle )
Hilbertian –
David Hilbert (as in Hilbertian field )
Hippocratic –
Hippocrates (as in
Hippocratic Oath )
Hitchcockian –
Alfred Hitchcock
Hitlerian –
Adolf Hitler
Hobbesian –
Thomas Hobbes
Holmesian –
Sherlock Holmes ,
Conan Doyle 's fictional character; also Sherlockian
Homeric –
Homer
Horatian –
Horace (as in Horatian satire )
Humean –
David Hume
Hunterian –
William Hunter (anatomist) (as in
Hunterian Museum )
Hussite –
Jan Hus (as in
Hussite Wars )
Hutterite –
Jacob Hutter
Ignatian –
Ignatius of Loyola (as in Ignatian spirituality )
Imeldific –
Imelda Marcos (meaning ostentatious; extravagant)
Irenic –
Eirene (of Greek mythology; meaning peaceable)
Jacksonian –
Andrew Jackson (as in
Jacksonian democracy );
John Hughlings Jackson (as in
Jacksonian seizure )
Jacobean –
King James I (as in
Jacobean era )
Jacobian –
Carl Gustav Jacobi (as in
Jacobian matrix )
Jacobite –
King James II (as in
Jacobitism )
Jagiellonian –
Władysław II Jagiełło (as in
Jagiellonian dynasty )
Jamesian –
Henry James
Japhetic –
Japheth (as in
Japhetic theory )
Jeffersonian –
Thomas Jefferson (as in
Jeffersonian democracy )
Johannine –
Saint John the Evangelist (as in
Johannine literature )
Johnsonian –
Samuel Johnson
Jordanesque –
Michael Jordan (usually denotes remarkable athletic achievement or dominance)
Josephite –
Saint Joseph (as in Josephite Marriage or
Josephite Fathers )
jovial –
Jove/Jupiter , of Roman mythology; also
Jovian
Joycean –
James Joyce (as in
Pre-Joycean Fellowship )
Julian –
Julius Caesar (as in
Julian calendar )
Jungian –
Carl Jung (as in
Jungian psychology )
Junoesque –
Juno , of Roman mythology
Justinianic –
Justinian I
Juvenalian –
Juvenal (as in
Juvenalian satire )
K–M
N–Q
Napierian –
John Napier (as in
Napierian logarithm )
Napoleonic –
Napoléon Bonaparte (as in
Napoleonic code )
narcissistic –
Narcissus , of Greek mythology (as in
Narcissistic personality disorder )
Nasserist –
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nehruvian –
Jawaharlal Nehru
Neronian –
Nero
Nervan –
Nerva (as in
Nervan-Antonian dynasty )
Nestorian –
Nestorius (as in
Nestorian Schism )
Newtonian –
Isaac Newton (as in
Newtonian telescope )
Nietzschean –
Friedrich Nietzsche (as in
Nietzschean affirmation )
Nixonian –
Richard Nixon
Noachian –
Noah (as in
Noachian deluge )
Noetherian –
Emmy Noether (as in
Noetherian ring )
Norquistian –
Grover Norquist
Odinic –
Odin
Odyssean –
Odysseus
Oedipal –
Oedipus , of Greek mythology (as in
Oedipal complex )
ohmic –
Georg Ohm (as in
ohmic device )
onanistic –
Onan
Orbanist –
Victor Orban
Orphic –
Orpheus , of Greek mythology (as in
Orphic Mysteries )
Orwellian –
George Orwell
Osirian –
Osiris , of Egyptian mythology
Ottoman –
Osman I (as in
Ottoman Empire )
Ottonian –
Otto I the Great (as in Ottonian dynasty )
Ovidian –
Ovid
Oxfordian –
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (as in
Oxfordian theory )
Palinian –
Michael Palin (as in Palinian wit )
Palladian –
Andrea Palladio (as in
Palladian architecture )
Panglossian –
Pangloss ,
Voltaire 's fictional character
pappian –
Pappus of Alexandria (as in
pappian plane )
Paracelsian –
Paracelsus
parkinsonian –
James Parkinson (as in
parkinsonian syndrome )
pasteurized –
Louis Pasteur (as in pasteurized milk )
Pauline –
Paul of Tarsus (as in
Pauline epistles )
Pavlovian –
Ivan Pavlov (as in
Pavlovian conditioning )
Pecksniffian –
Seth Pecksniff ,
Dickens ' fictional character
Pelagian –
Pelagius (as in
Pelagian heresy )
Pepysian –
Samuel Pepys
Periclean –
Pericles (as in Periclean Athens )
Petrine –
Saint Peter (as in
Petrine primacy ); also
Peter the Great (as in
Petrine baroque )
Piagetian –
Jean Piaget (as in
Piagetian theory )
Pickwickian –
Samuel Pickwick ,
Dickens ' fictional character
Pigouvian –
Arthur Cecil Pigou (as in
Pigouvian Tax )
Pinteresque –
Harold Pinter
Platonic –
Plato (as in
Platonic love )
Plinian –
Pliny (as in
Plinian eruption )
Plutarchian –
Plutarch
plutonic –
Pluto , of Greek & Roman mythology (as in
Plutonic theory ); also plutonian
Pollyannish –
Pollyanna , fictional character
Pombaline –
Marquis of Pombal (as in
Pombaline Downtown )
Popperian –
Karl Popper (as in Popperian falsification )
Procrustean –
Procrustes , of Greek mythology (as in
Pombaline Downtown )
Promethean –
Prometheus , of Greek mythology
protean –
Proteus , of Greek mythology
Proustian –
Marcel Proust (as in
Proustian memory )
Ptolemaic –
Ptolemy (as in
Ptolemaic system );
Ptolemy I Soter (as in
Ptolemaic dynasty )
Putinist –
Vladimir Putin (as in
Putinist Russia )
Pyrrhic –
Pyrrhus of Epirus (as in
Pyrrhic victory )
Pyrrhonian –
Pyrrho (as in
Pyrrhonian skepticism )
Pythagorean –
Pythagoras (as in
Pythagorean theorem )
Pythonic –
Monty Python , a more correct eponym, used by
Terry Jones , for the more commonly used Pythonesque (as in
Pythonic sketches )
Pythonesque –
Monty Python , fictional character name from television comedy (as in
Pythonesque humour )
Quirinal –
Quirinus , of Roman mythology (as in
Quirinal Hill )
quixotic –
Don Quixote ,
Cervantes ' fictional character
R–U
V–Z
See also
Notes