kaczynskian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to Ted Kaczynski (1942-2023), American former mathematics professor who engaged in a nationwide bombing campaign as the Unabomber against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the environment.
Example Sentences
- "[…] he could have imagined them as some Kaczynskian Bonnie and Clyde crossing the country maiming and killing, torturing and having a few chuckles."
- "But he was beginning to feel like a crackpot of Kaczynskian proportions. Paul wished he could turn his anger into action."
- "Short of a determined, Kaczynskian flight from the consensual world and all its entanglements, the algorithmic management of life chances in particular will still exert tremendous pressure on the shape of one's choices, […]"
- "While attackers often share a critical framework with obvious Marxist, anarchist, poststructuralist, Tiqqunist, Kaczynskian or FAI/CCFian thought, the events build from one another and not a shared text-centric critique."
Etymology
From Kaczynski + -an.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Kaczynskian (comparative)
most Kaczynskian (superlative)