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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.

Contents

A–C

D–F

G–J

K–M

N–Q

R–U

V–Z

See also

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'')

★ 'Bradmanesque' — Donald Bradman

★ '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, Direct Capetians'')

★ 'Capraesque' — Frank Capra

★ '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

★ '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'')

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'')

★ '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'

★ '' — 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'')

★ 'Evertonian' — Everton F.C. (as in ''Evertonian supporters'')

★ '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'')

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'')

★ 'Grundtvigian' — N.F.S. Grundtvig (as in ''Grundtvigian Lutheranism'')

★ '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'')

K–M

★ 'Kafkaesque' — Franz Kafka

★ 'Kantian' — Immanuel Kant

★ 'Keynesian' — John Maynard Keynes (as in ''Keynesian economics'')

★ 'Kierkegaardian' — Søren Kierkegaard

★ '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'')

★ '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

★ 'Marian' — Mary (as in ''Marian apparition''); Gaius Marius (as in ''Marian reforms'')

★ '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'')

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'')

★ '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 ''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'')

★ '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

★ 'Rabelaisian' — François Rabelais

★ 'Randian' — Ayn Rand (as in ''Randian hero'')

★ 'Raphaelesque' — Raphael; also 'Raphaelite' (as in ''Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood'')

★ 'Rastafarian' — Ras Tafari (Haile Selassie)

★ 'Reaganesque' — Ronald Reagan

★ 'Richardsonian' — Henry Hobson Richardson (as in ''Richardsonian Romanesque'')

★ 'Riemannian' — Bernhard Riemann (as in ''Riemannian geometry'')

★ 'ritzy' — César Ritz

★ 'Rockwellian' — Norman Rockwell

★ 'rodomontade' — Rodomonte, Boiardo's and Ariosto's fictional character

★ 'Rogerian' — Carl Rogers (as in ''Rogerian therapy'')

★ 'Rothbardian' — Murray N. Rothbard

★ 'Ruthian' — Babe Ruth

★ 'sadistic' — Marquis de Sade

★ 'Samsonian' — Samson

★ 'Sapphic' — Sappho (as in ''Sapphic love'')

★ 'Sassanid' — Sassan (as in ''Sassanid dynasty''); also 'Sassanian'

★ 'satanic' — Satan (as in ''Satanic Verses'')

★ 'Seleucid' — Seleucus I Nicator (as in ''Seleucid Empire'')

★ 'Semitic' — Shem (as in ''Semitic languages'')

★ 'Senecan' — Seneca (as in ''Senecan Tragedy'')

★ 'Servian' — Servius Tullius (as in ''Servian Wall'')

★ 'Severan' — Septimius Severus (as in ''Severan dynasty'')

★ 'Shakespearean' — William Shakespeare (as in ''Shakespearean authorship'', ''Shakespearean tragedy'')

★ 'Shavian' — George Bernard Shaw (as in ''Shavian alphabet'', ''Shavian reversal'')

★ 'Sistine' — Pope Sixtus IV (as in ''Sistine Chapel'')

★ 'Sisyphean' — Sisyphus, of Greek mythology

★ 'Skinnerian' — B. F. Skinner (as in ''Skinnerian behaviorism'')

★ 'Smithsonian' — James Smithson (as in ''Smithsonian Institution'')

★ 'Socratic' — Socrates (as in ''Socratic method'')

★ 'Solonian' — Solon (as in ''Solonian Constitution'')

★ 'Sophoclean' — Sophocles

★ 'Spencerian' — Platt Rogers Spencer (as in ''Spencerian script'')

★ 'Spenserian' — Edmund Spenser (as in ''Spenserian stanza'')

★ 'Stalinist' — Joseph Stalin (as in ''Stalinist architecture'')

★ 'stentorian' — Stentor, of Greek mythology

★ 'Tennysonian' — Alfred, Lord Tennyson

★ 'terpsichorean' — Terpsichore

★ 'thespian' — Thespis

★ 'Thomist' — St. Thomas Aquinas (as in ''Thomist philosophy'')

★ 'Thomsonian' — Dr. Samuel Thomson (as in ''Thomsonian Medicine'')

★ 'Thoreauvian' — Henry David Thoreau

★ 'Timurid' — Timur (Tamerlane) (as in ''Timurid Empire'')

★ 'Tironian' — Marcus Tullius Tiro (as in ''Tironian notes'')

★ 'titian' — Titian

★ 'Tolstoyan' — Leo Tolstoy; also 'Tolstoian'

★ 'Trotskyist' — Leon Trotsky

★ 'Tychonic' — Tycho Brahe (as in ''Tychonic system''); also 'Tychonian'

★ 'Umayyad' — Umayya ibn Abd Shams (as in ''Umayyad Dynasty'')

V–Z

★ 'Vesalian' — Vesalius

★ 'Victorian' — Queen Victoria (as in ''Victorian era'')

★ 'Vitruvian' — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (as in ''Vitruvian Man'')

★ 'Voltaic' — Alessandro Volta (as in ''Voltaic pile'')

★ 'Voltairean' — Voltaire

★ 'Vygotskian' — Lev Vygotsky

★ 'Wagnerian' — Richard Wagner (as in ''Wagnerian rock'')

★ 'Waldensian' — Peter Waldo (as in ''Waldensian Church'')

★ 'Washingtonian' — George Washington; Martha Washington (as in ''Washingtonian movement'')

★ 'Wesleyan' — John Wesley (as in ''Wesleyan Church'')

★ 'Wilsonian' — Woodrow Wilson

★ 'Wolffian' — Caspar Friedrich Wolff (as in ''Wolffian duct'')

★ 'Wronskian' — Josef Hoëné-Wroński (as in ''Wronskian determinant'')

★ 'Zoroastrian' — Zoroaster (Zarathustra); also 'Zarathustrian'

★ 'Zwinglian' — Ulrich Zwingli

See also

★ List of eponyms