bellovian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, resembling, or characteristic of, American writer Saul Bellow (1915–2005).
Example Sentences
- "The obvious dangers inherent in the Nietzchean^([sic]) view of the superman in love with his fate we are by now well aware of; but let us take stock of the danger implicit in the Bellovian view, which is the debasement of the ideal of good-will into the blind alley of a mindless acquiescence."
- "Augie’s complaint is diagnosed as moha, opposition of the finite, a curious complaint which is the beginning of Augie and of all the other Bellovian protagonists."
- "Released to coincide with the centennial of Bellow’s birth and the 10th anniversary of his death, Leader’s Bellovian tome is just the first installment of a projected two-volume biography."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Bellovian (comparative)
most Bellovian (superlative)