swiftian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist, or his works.
adj
Of or pertaining to Taylor Swift (1989–), American singer-songwriter, or her musical and lyrical style.
Example Sentences
- "Swiftian satire"
- "Nor are his ironic-human touches wanting. Almost at its birth he satirises, in his own quiet Swiftian way, an absurd tendency which has grown mightily since, and flourishes now: […]"
- "It was my intent to mix serious issues and facts with irony and Swiftian satire to engage readers and make my points. No apologies on that count."
- "Swiftian chorus"
- "You could hear Martin and Shellback's touch in the bright, punchy sound of those songs, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” “I Knew You Were Trouble,” and “22.” Yet the songs are unmistakably Swiftian; […]."
- "Katie is herself deeply invested in the kind of heteronormative propriety that other fans see in Taylor Swift's music, and she […] suggests that she can incorporate Swift's image of sweet wholesomeness into her own experience and articulation of lesbian relationships; yet, Katie desires to appropriate a piece of heteronormative culture—“Swiftian” propriety and sentimentality—without considering the ways that this strict view on the expression of sexual desire is connected to the ways that she is marginalized within the community because of her sexual identity."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Swiftian (comparative)
most Swiftian (superlative)