List of eponymous adjectives in English

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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.

Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.

1 A–C
2 D–F
3 G–J
4 K–M
5 N–Q
6 R–U
7 V–Z
8 See also

[edit] 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)
Achillean—Achilles, of Greek mythology
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
Aldine—Aldus Manutius (as in Aldine Press)
Alexandrine—Alexander the Great (as in Alexandrine verse); also Alexandrian (as in Alexandrian period)
Amperian—André-Marie Ampère (as in Amperian loop)
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)
Atlantean—Atlas; also Atlantic
Augustan—Caesar Augustus (as in Augustan drama)
Augustinian—St. Augustine (as in Augustinian Order)

Baconian—Francis Bacon (as in Baconian cipher)
Bahá'í—Bahá'u'lláh (as in Bahá'í Faith)
Ballardian—J. G. Ballard
Bangsian—John Kendrick Bangs (as in Bangsian fantasy)
Bayesian—Thomas Bayes (as in Bayesian probability)
Beckettian—Samuel Beckett
Benedictine—Benedict of Nursia (as in Benedictine Rule)
Benthamite—Jeremy Bentham (as in Benthamite Utilitarianism)
Bodleian—Thomas Bodley (as in Bodleian Library)
Bolivarian—Simón Bolívar (as in Bolivarian Revolution)
Boolean—George Boole (as in Boolean algebra, Boolean logic)
Bradmanesque—Donald Bradman
Brechtian—Bertholt Brecht (as in Brechtian acting)
Brownian—Robert Brown (as in Brownian motion)
Brunonian—John Brown (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
Caroline—Charles I of England (as in Caroline era); also Carolinian
Carolingian—Charles Martel (as in Carolingian dynasty)
Cartesian—René Descartes (as in Cartesian coordinate)
Catilinarian—Catiline (as in Catilinarian conspiracy)
Chaplinesque—Charlie Chaplin
Chaucerian —Geoffrey Chaucer (as in Chaucerian stanza)
chauvinistic—Nicolas Chauvin
Chestertonian—G. K. Chesterton
Chomskyan—Noam Chomsky
Christian—Jesus Christ
Churchillian—Winston Churchill
Ciceronian - Cicero
Claudian—Claudius (as in Julio-Claudian dynasty)
Clintonian—Bill Clinton
Chekhovian—Anton Chekhov
Columbian—Christopher Columbus (as in Columbian Exchange)
Confucianist—Confucius
Constantinian—Constantine I (as in Constantinian dynasty)
Copernican—Nicolaus Copernicus (as in Copernican System)
Cromwellian—Oliver Cromwell
Cyrillic—St. Cyril (as in Cyrillic alphabet)

[edit] D–F

daedal—Daedalus, of Greek mythology; also Daedalian or Daedalean
Daliesque—Salvador Dalí
Dantesque—Dante Alighieri; also Dantean
Darwinian—Charles Darwin (as in Darwinian literary studies)
Davidic—David (as in Davidic line)
Derridean—Jacques Derrida (as in Derridean Deconstruction)
Dickensian—Charles Dickens
Dionysian—Dionysus, of Greek mythology (as in Dionysian Mysteries); Dionysius Exiguus (as in Dionysian era)
Diophantine—Diophantus (as in Diophantine equation)
Dobsonian—John Dobson (as in Dobsonian telescope)
Dominican—Saint Dominic (as in Dominican Order)
Dostoevskian—Fyodor Dostoevsky; also Dostoyevskian
draconian—Draco
Dulcinian—Fra Dolcino

Edisonian—Thomas Edison (as in Edisonian approach)
Edwardian—King Edward VII
Edwardsian—Jonathan Edwards
Einsteinian—Albert Einstein
Elizabethan—Queen Elizabeth I (as in Elizabethan era)
Emersonian—Ralph Waldo Emerson (as in Emersonian perfectionism)
Enochian—Enoch (as in Enochian magic)
epicurean—Epicurus
Erasmian—Erasmus (as in Erasmian Reformation)
Euclidean—Euclid (as in Euclidean geometry, Euclidean algorithm)
Euripidean—Euripides
Eustachian—Eustachius (as in Eustachian tube)

Fabian—Fabius Maximus (as in Fabian strategy)
Fallopian—Gabriele Falloppio (as in Fallopian tube)
Falstaffian—Sir John Falstaff, Shakespeare's fictional character
Faulknerian—William Faulkner
Faustian—Faust, Goethe's fictional character (as in Faustian deal)
Felliniesque—Federico Fellini
Flavian—Titus Flavius Vespasianus (Vespasian) (as in Flavian dynasty)
Fortean—Charles Fort (as in Fortean Society)
Franciscan—St. Francis of Assisi (as in Franciscan Order)
Franklinic—Benjamin Franklin (as in Franklinic electricity, franklinic taste)
Frederician—Frederick the Great (as in Frederician Rococo)
Freudian—Sigmund Freud (as in Freudian slip)

[edit] 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
Gaussian—Carl Friedrich Gauss (as in Gaussian function)
Georgian—King George I (as in Georgian architecture)
Gladstonian—William Gladstone (as in Gladstonian Liberalism)
Gödelian—Kurt Gödel (as in Gödelian incompleteness)
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)

Hamiltonian—Sir William Rowan Hamilton (as in Hamiltonian path); Alexander Hamilton (as in Hamiltonian economic program)
Hamitic—Ham (as in Hamitic languages)
Hegelian—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (as in Hegelian dialectic)
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)
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)
Hunterian—William Hunter (anatomist) (as in Hunterian Museum)
Hussite—Jan Hus (as in Hussite Wars)

Ignatian—Ignatius of Loyola (as in Ignatian spirituality)

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 Jacobite Rising)
Jagiellonian—Władysław II Jagiełło (as in Jagiellonian dynasty)
Japhetic—Japheth (as in Japhetic theory}
Jeffersonian—Thomas Jefferson (as in Jeffersonian democracy or Jeffersonian Model)
Johnsonian—Samuel Johnson
Jordanesque—Michael Jordan (usually denotes remarkable athletic achievement or dominance)
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
Juvenalian—Juvenal (as in Juvenalian Satire)

[edit] K–M

Kafkaesque—Franz Kafka
Kantian—Immanuel Kant
Kennedyesque—John F. Kennedy
Keynesian—John Maynard Keynes (as in Keynesian economics)
Kierkegaardian—Søren Kierkegaard
Kubrickian—Stanley Kubrick

Lagrangian—Joseph Louis Lagrange (as in Lagrangian point)
Lamarckian—Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (as in Lamarckian evolution)
Laplacian—Pierre-Simon Laplace (as in Laplacian field, Laplacian matrix)
Levitical—Levi (as in Levitical Priesthood)
Leibnizian—Gottfried Leibniz (as in Leibnizian calculus)
Lilian—Aloysius Lilius (as in Lilian date)
Lilliputian—Lilliput (from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift)
Linnaean—Carolus Linnaeus (as in Linnaean taxonomy)
Lockean—John Locke
Lorentzian—Hendrik Lorentz (as in Lorentzian function)
Lovecraftian—H. P. Lovecraft (as in Lovecraftian horror)
Lucasian—Henry Lucas (as in Lucasian Professor)
Lullian—Ramon Llull (as in Lullian art); also Llullian
Lutheran—Martin Luther
Lynchian—David Lynch

macadamized—John Loudon McAdam (as in macadamized system)
Maccabean—Judas Maccabeus (as in Maccabean revolt)
Machiavellian—Niccolò Machiavelli (often used to represent views or behavior inconsistent with that of its eponym)
Madisonian—James Madison (as in Madisonian Model)
Magellanic—Ferdinand Magellan (as in Magellanic Clouds)
Malpighian—Marcello Malpighi (as in Malpighian corpuscle)
Malthusian—Thomas Malthus (as in Malthusian catastrophe)
Manichean—Mani; also Manichaean
manueline—Manuel I of Portugal
Marcosian—Ferdinand Marcos (as in Marcosian tactics)
Marian—Mary (as in Marian apparition); Gaius Marius (as in Marian reforms)
Marivaudian—Pierre de Marivaux
Markovian—Andrey Markov (as in Markovian process)
Marlenesque—Marlene Dietrich (as in Marlenesque nose)
Marlovian—Christopher Marlowe (as in Marlovian theory)
martial—Mars, of Roman mythology (as in Martial arts)
Marxist—Karl Marx (as in Marxist theory); also Marxian (as in Marxian economics)
maudlin—Mary Magdalene
Maxwellian—James Clerk Maxwell (as in Maxwellian distribution, Maxwellian demon)
Mazarine—Jules Cardinal Mazarin (as in mazarine blue)
McCarthyist—Joseph McCarthy
Mendelian—Gregor Mendel (as in Mendelian inheritance)
Menippean—Menippus (as in Menippean satire)
Merovingian—Merovech (as in Merovingian dynasty)
Metonic—Meton (as in Metonic cycle)
Miltonic—John Milton; also Miltonian
Minkowskian—Hermann Minkowski
Mithridatic—Mithridates VI (as in Mithridatic Wars)
Mosaic—Moses (as in Mosaic Law, but not as in mosaic floor)
Muhammadan—Muhammad (as in Muhammadan art)

[edit] N–Q

Napoleonic—Napoléon Bonaparte (as in Napoleonic code)
narcissistic—Narcissus, of Greek mythology (as in Narcissistic personality disorder)
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)
Noachian—Noah (as in Noachian deluge)
Noetherian—Emmy Noether (as in Noetherian ring)
Norquistian—Grover Norquist

Oedipal—Oedipus, of Greek mythology (as in Oedipal complex)
ohmic—Georg Ohm (as in ohmic device)
onanistic—Onan
Orphic—Orpheus, of Greek mythology (as in Orphic Mysteries)
Orwellian—George Orwell
Ottoman—Osman I (as in Ottoman Empire)
Ottonian—Otto I the Great (as in Ottonian Dynasty)
Oxfordian—Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (as in Oxfordian theory)

Palladian—Andrea Palladio (as in Palladian architecture)
Panglossian—Pangloss, Voltaire's fictional character
Paracelsian—Paracelsus
parkinsonian—James Parkinson (as in parkinsonian syndrome)
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)
Periclean—Pericles (as in Periclean Athens)
Piagetian—Jean Piaget (as in Piagetian theory)
Pickwickian—Samuel Pickwick, Dickens' fictional character
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
Pombaline—Marquis of Pombal (as in Pombaline Downtown)
Procrustean—Procrustes, of Greek mythology
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)
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)