lovecraftian
/lʌvˈkɹæfti.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Frighteningly monstrous and otherworldly, sometimes with terrifyingly unnatural anatomy.
Example Sentences
- "The tip of the thing was equipped with long whiplike appendages that writhed around a loose, drooling, toothless mouth large enough to swallow a man whole...Perhaps this was the only thing that the escaping Lovecraftian entity had thus far been able to extrude between the opening Gates — this one finger."
- "Lovecraftian horror"
- "Lovecraftian fiction"
- "The present story, "Born of the Winds", is one of the best. For one thing, the vision of the story is pure Lovecraftian cosmic pessimism."
- "That abandonment, incidentally, compelled Sam’s mother to fill her young son’s head with H. P. Lovecraftian horror-style lies about the interior of Emily Dickinson’s house, lies that motivated her son’s break-in to begin with."
- "For zealous Lovecraftians there are a few choice tidbits—a short autobiography, his commonplace book, and his “History and Chronology of the Necronomicon.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree English Lovecraft Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Lovecraftian From Lovecraft + -ian, in reference to H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives.