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Strunkian

Strunkian adjective: of or relating to William Strunk, Jr. or his Elements of Style (1920), a famous prescriptive writing-style guide.

Adjective

Strunkian (comparative more Strunkian, superlative most Strunkian)

  1. Of or relating to William Strunk, Jr. or his Elements of Style (1920), a famous prescriptive writing-style guide.
    • However, the above passage could have been written more efficiently — if Strunkian concision, using the fewest words possible, is understood as the measure of verbal efficiency.2020, Victoria Rosner, Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life, page 62

Forms of Strunkian

comparativemore Strunkian
superlativemost Strunkian

Origin of Strunkian

From Strunk + -ian.

Questions about Strunkian

What does Strunkian mean?
Strunkian means of or relating to William Strunk, Jr. or his Elements of Style (1920), a famous prescriptive writing-style guide.
What part of speech is Strunkian?
Strunkian is an adjective.

Words near Strunkian in the dictionary

  1. strung up
  2. strung with
  3. strung-out
  4. Strunga
  5. Strunk
  6. Strunkian
  7. Strunks
  8. strunt
  9. strunted
  10. strunting
  11. struntish

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