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Caligulan

Caligulan adjective: of or pertaining to Caligula (AD 12–41), Roman Emperor.

Adjective

Caligulan (comparative more Caligulan, superlative most Caligulan)

  1. Of or pertaining to Caligula (AD 12–41), Roman Emperor.
  2. (transferred sense) Brutally cruel and tyrannical.
    • The Caligulan malice with which Donald Trump administered Paul Ryan’s degradation is an object lesson in the price of abject capitulation to power.2016, George F. Will, “The ‘big price’ Paul Ryan has paid for supporting Donald Trump”, in The Washington Post
    • In many ways, the company’s four-week tailspin has been a one-of-a-kind spectacle. Documents filed in anticipation of its public offering revealed a pattern of behavior from its founder and chief executive, Adam Neumann, that fits somewhere on the spectrum between highly eccentric and vaguely...2019 September 20, Derek Thompson, “WeWork and the Great Unicorn Delusion”, in The Atlantic

Forms of Caligulan

comparativemore Caligulan
superlativemost Caligulan
alternative formCaligulian
alternative formCaligulean
alternative formCaligularian

Origin of Caligulan

From Caligula + -an, named after Roman Emperor Caligula (12 CE–41 CE).

Questions about Caligulan

What does Caligulan mean?
Caligulan means of or pertaining to Caligula (AD 12–41), Roman Emperor.
What part of speech is Caligulan?
Caligulan is an adjective.

Words near Caligulan in the dictionary

  1. caligraphing
  2. caligraphs
  3. caligraphy
  4. Caliguiri
  5. Caligula
  6. Caligulan
  7. Caligulean
  8. Caligulian
  9. Caligulism
  10. Caligulisms
  11. caligynephobia

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