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Caligulian

Caligulian is the alternative form of Caligulan.

Meaning of Caligulan

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

Forms of Caligulian

comparativemore Caligulian
superlativemost Caligulian

Origin of Caligulian

From Caligula + -ian.

Questions about Caligulian

What is Caligulian the alternative form of?
Caligulian is the alternative form of Caligulan.

Words near Caligulian in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Caligulian (page history and authors); Caligulan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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