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Conan Doylean

Conan Doylean adjective: resembling or characteristic of British writer and physician Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who created the character Sherlock Holmes.

Adjective

Conan Doylean (comparative more Conan Doylean, superlative most Conan Doylean)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of British writer and physician Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who created the character Sherlock Holmes.
    • Connie, at great length and with great patience, explained the difference between Conan Doylean and Shakespearian heroes.1935 April 6, Malcolm D. Phillips, “When Friends Fall Out”, in Picturegoer, volume 4, number 202, page 8, column 2
    • For a while I smoked away making rings in the air and then attempted a Conan Doylean approach. Necessarily a poor imitator of Sherlock Holmes, I said, ‘If I’m not mistaken, you’re not only rich but rolling in affluence. You make even your shortest trips in a car—you’re not used to going around on...1987, Diganta Rāẏa, Untold Stories of Shop-Lifters, New Delhi: National Publishing House, →ISBN, page 43
    Synonyms:
    Conan Doylish

Examples of Conan Doylean in a sentence

  • For a while I smoked away making rings in the air and then attempted a Conan Doylean approach.1987, Diganta Rāẏa, Untold Stories of Shop-Lifters, New Delhi: National Publishing House, →ISBN, page 43:
  • Gaston Leroux is an early writer who spurns the Conan Doylean tradition and invents a detective with a doubting Thomas attitude toward material clues.1990, Gillian Gill, Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries, The Free Press, →ISBN, page 39:

Synonyms of Conan Doylean

Forms of Conan Doylean

comparativemore Conan Doylean
superlativemost Conan Doylean

Origin of Conan Doylean

From Conan Doyle + -an.

Questions about Conan Doylean

What does Conan Doylean mean?
Conan Doylean means resembling or characteristic of British writer and physician Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who created the character Sherlock Holmes.
How do you use Conan Doylean in a sentence?
For a while I smoked away making rings in the air and then attempted a Conan Doylean approach.
What part of speech is Conan Doylean?
Conan Doylean is an adjective.

Words near Conan Doylean in the dictionary

  1. coname
  2. conamed
  3. conames
  4. conaming
  5. Conan
  6. Conan Doylean
  7. Conan Doylish
  8. Conan the Bacterium
  9. Conan-Doylish
  10. Conanicut Island
  11. conanine

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