Word.ws English Dictionary

Thurberian

Thurberian adjective: of or relating to James Thurber (1894–1961), American author and cartoonist who celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people.

Adjective

Thurberian (comparative more Thurberian, superlative most Thurberian)

  1. Of or relating to James Thurber (1894–1961), American author and cartoonist who celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people.

Forms of Thurberian

comparativemore Thurberian
superlativemost Thurberian

Origin of Thurberian

From Thurber + -ian.

Questions about Thurberian

What does Thurberian mean?
Thurberian means of or relating to James Thurber (1894–1961), American author and cartoonist who celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people.
What part of speech is Thurberian?
Thurberian is an adjective.

Words near Thurberian in the dictionary

  1. thural
  2. Thurawal
  3. Thurber
  4. Thurber's needlegrass
  5. Thurberesque
  6. Thurberian
  7. Thurbon
  8. Thurbons
  9. Thurcroft
  10. Thurgarton
  11. Thurgau

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Thurberian (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: “Thurberian.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thurberian. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.