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Gandalfish

Gandalfish adjective: of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Gandalf from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Adjective

Gandalfish (comparative more Gandalfish, superlative most Gandalfish)

  1. Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Gandalf from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
    • It has an Aragorn figure called Gwydion, a Gandalfish wizard called Dallben, a dwarf named Doli, […]1980, Brian Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 156
    • The archetypical instance is Ralph Bakshi's film Wizards, in which, at the final duel between the Disneylike good wizard and the Gandalfish evil wizard, […]1986, Jan Hokenson, Howard Pearce, editors, Forms of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Third International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 36

Synonyms of Gandalfish

Forms of Gandalfish

comparativemore Gandalfish
superlativemost Gandalfish

Origin of Gandalfish

From Gandalf + -ish.

Questions about Gandalfish

What does Gandalfish mean?
Gandalfish means of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Gandalf from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
What part of speech is Gandalfish?
Gandalfish is an adjective.

Words near Gandalfish in the dictionary

  1. Ganda
  2. Gandaki
  3. Gandalf
  4. Gandalfesque
  5. Gandalfian
  6. Gandalfish
  7. gandang
  8. Gandangara
  9. Gandangarra
  10. gandangs
  11. Gandara

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