zelda-like
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of American novelist, painter, playwright, and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948).
adj
Having similar characteristics such as atmosphere and gameplay to the Legend of Zelda series.
Example Sentences
- "Most Zelda-like, and so is her subsequently futile, shabby career, a series of TV parts."
- "Though she has been hunting for another story that would allow her to create a Zelda-like role, she still is holding out for the real thing."
- "Caresse [Crosby]’s autobiography, The Passionate Years, reveals that she and her husband led something of a [F.] Scott [Fitzgerald] and Zelda-like existence, but their devotion to literature and fine publishing was unsurpassed."
- "[F. Scott] Fitzgerald may have made Dick [Diver] a psychiatrist for several reasons: distancing, and also in order to let his character associate with a Zelda-like psychotic, to give him entree into the upper classes abroad, and to create irony with his mental decline--"physician, heal thyself.""
- "Traces the Zelda-like Southern belle figure from warm and charming in “The Ice Palace” to vicious and cruel in “The Last of the Belles”; […]"
- "The three try to pretend that life is intact as an intricate sexual sharing goes on, but Catherine, in a Zelda-like way, becomes increasingly vindictive and hostile, especially toward David and his “work,” and ends up one day burning the stories (about his father) that he has lately been writing and that he considers the best work he has done."
Etymology
From Zelda + -like.