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)
Aeschylean — Aeschylus
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)
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)
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)
Bodleian — Thomas Bodley (as in Bodleian Library)
Bolivarian — Simón Bolívar (as in Bolivarian Revolution)
Boolean — George Boole (as in Boolean algebra, Boolean logic)
Brechtian — Bertholt Brecht
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
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)
Capraesque — Frank Capra
Carolingian — Charles Martel (as in Carolingian dynasty)
Cartesian — René Descartes (as in Cartesian coordinate)
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
Claudian — Claudius (as in Julio-Claudian dynasty)
Clintonian — Bill Clinton
Chekhovian — Anton Chekhov
Columbian — Christopher Columbus (as in Columbian Exchange)
Confucianist — Confucius
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
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)
Dobsonian — John Dobson (as in Dobsonian telescope)
Dominican — Saint Dominic (as in Dominican Order)
Dostoevskian — Fyodor Dostoevsky; also Dostoyevskian
draconian — Draco

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)

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)
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
gargantuan — Gargantua, Rabelais's fictional character
Gaussian — Carl Friedrich Gauss (as in Gaussian function)
Georgian — King George I (as in Georgian architecture)
Gödelian — Kurt Gödel (as in Gödelian incompleteness)
Gregorian — Pope Gregory I (as in Gregorian chant); Pope Gregory XIII (as in Gregorian calendar)

Hamiltonian — Sir William Rowan Hamilton (as in Hamiltonian path); Alexander Hamilton
Hamitic — Ham (as in Hamitic languages)
Hegelian — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (as in Hegelian dialectic)
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)
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
Keynesian — John Maynard Keynes (as in Keynesian economics)
Kierkegaardian — Søren Kierkegaard

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)
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

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)
Malthusian — Thomas Malthus (as in Malthusian catastrophe)
Manichean — Mani; also Manichaean
manueline — Manuel I of Portugal
Marian — Mary (as in Marian apparition)
Marivaudian — Pierre de Marivaux
Markovian — Andrey Markov (as in Markovian process)
Marlovian — Christopher Marlowe
martial — Mars, of Roman mythology
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
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
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
Noachian — Noah (as in Noachian deluge)
Noetherian — Emmy Noether (as in Noetherian ring)

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)
Paracelsian — Paracelsus
parkinsonian — James Parkinson (as in parkinsonian syndrome)
Pauline — Paul of Tarsus (as in Pauline epistles)
Pavlovian — Ivan Pavlov (as in Pavlovian conditioning)
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 a Plinian eruption)
Plutarchian — Plutarch
plutonic — Pluto, of Greek & Roman mythology (as in Plutonic theory); also plutonian
Procrustean — Procrustes, of Greek mythology
Promethean — Prometheus, of Greek mythology
protean — Proteus, of Greek mythology
Proustian — Marcel Proust
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)
Pythonesque — Monty Python, fictional character name from television comedy (as in Pythonesque humour)