dostoyevskeian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "All day long and all night men tramped back and forth, Dostoyevskeian figures in rough garb—and slept there, rested and ate there, held services even."
- "But it is ungrateful to cavil at trifles when there is so much that is fine in this picture, without sombre Dostoyevskeian shadows, of a modern Prince Muishkin in New York."
- "As the depressive needs a psychoanalyst, so too does the Dostoyevskeian protagonist need divine pardon and forgiveness."
- "Cursed to tell the truth yet never to be believed, this Trojan prisoner is mocked by the Chorus and makes clear the times where she is seized by a prophetic fever as if by a holy Dostoyevskeian epilepsy."
Etymology
From Dostoyevsky + -ian.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Dostoyevskeian (comparative)
most Dostoyevskeian (superlative)