dostoevskan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Thus one may say of a Dostoevskan character that he finds a continuously intimate connection between proper conduct and true virtue – or, more frequently, improper conduct and true vice."
- "Initially, he flirts with the cryptic: in the early sixties he claims the existence of “a great and eternal living truth, at once illuminating everything,” which comes forth from “the very center” of those seemingly insignificant Dostoevskan protagonists after whom Joseph (Dangling Man) is fashioned (“Facts” 28)."
- "First, I got the fever – an actual fever, a sickness that almost certainly clouded my judgement for at least seventy-two hours. And it was perhaps heightened by the Dostoevskan fever that grips the soul of the punter when he is forging ahead – ‘gamblers know how a man can sit in the same place for nearly twenty-four hours, playing cards and never turning his eyes to the right or the left…’ that great Russian punter wrote."
Inflected Forms
more Dostoevskan (comparative)
most Dostoevskan (superlative)