Word.ws English Dictionary

Strangelovean

Strangelovean is the alternative form of Strangelovian.

Meaning of Strangelovian

Adjective

Strangelovian (comparative more Strangelovian, superlative most Strangelovian)

  1. Of or pertaining to nuclear apocalypse, especially through incompetence or shortsightedness.
    • Paul C. Warnke, President Jimmy Carter's first director of ACDA, came to Reagan's defense by noting the Strangelovian affection of some armchair strategists for nuclear weaponry.1987, “INF Agreement in Principle”, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 43, number 9, page 5

Forms of Strangelovean

comparativemore Strangelovean
superlativemost Strangelovean

Origin of Strangelovean

From Strangelove + -an.

Questions about Strangelovean

What is Strangelovean the alternative form of?
Strangelovean is the alternative form of Strangelovian.

Words near Strangelovean in the dictionary

  1. strangelet
  2. strangelets
  3. strangelier
  4. strangeling
  5. strangelings
  6. Strangelovean
  7. Strangelovian
  8. strangely
  9. strangely warmed
  10. strangen
  11. strangeness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Strangelovean (page history and authors); Strangelovian (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Strangelovean.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/strangelovean. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.