dostoievskan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Tolstoyan gloom, Dostoievskan horror, and general Russian hopelessness are the natural outcome of the over-intellectualized misery and morbidity of nineteenth-century Russians, but to import this joyless atmosphere into English literature is a tragic affection."
- "Marcel Proust saw Mme de Sévigné’s romanticism, her taste for the bizarre, the picturesque and the hallucinatory—this passage, in particular—as an expression of what he called her “Dostoievskan side.”"
- "Garnett’s monologism is corrected in the translation by R. Pevear and L Volokhonsky (1990), which initiates a second phase in the history of Dostoievskan translation (see France in France 2000, 595–6; Burnett in Classe 2000, 365–71), rather overstatedly linked by Burnett to a reconceptualisation of what language and literature are."
Inflected Forms
more Dostoievskan (comparative)
most Dostoievskan (superlative)