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Kurtzian

Kurtzian adjective: megalomaniac; brutal, tyrannical.

Adjective

Kurtzian (comparative more Kurtzian, superlative most Kurtzian)

  1. Megalomaniac; brutal, tyrannical.
    • […]imagine Caleb’s excitement and fear when he wins an in-house competition to spend a week alone with the firm’s reclusive, scarily Kurtzian founder, Nathan (bullishly played by Oscar Isaac), in his gigantic fortress of solitude on a private island—it looks like the one where they built Jurassic...2015 January 22, Peter Bradshaw, “Ex Machina review – an elegant but limited artificial intelligence thriller”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of Kurtzian

comparativemore Kurtzian
superlativemost Kurtzian

Origin of Kurtzian

From Kurtz + -ian, after the fictional character Kurtz in the novel Heart of Darkness.

Questions about Kurtzian

What does Kurtzian mean?
Kurtzian means megalomaniac; brutal, tyrannical.
What part of speech is Kurtzian?
Kurtzian is an adjective.

Words near Kurtzian in the dictionary

  1. kurtosises
  2. kurtotic
  3. kurtoxin
  4. Kurtz
  5. Kurtzes
  6. Kurtzian
  7. Kurtzman
  8. Kurtzmans
  9. Kurtöp
  10. kuru
  11. Kuru disease

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