Luciann.
/ˈluːʃn/, /ˈluːʃɪən/, /ˈluːsɪən/, U.S. /ˈluʃən/ Used allusively. A witty scoffer.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [noun] > one who uses
quipper1589
satire1596
wit-cracker1600
wit-snapper1600
ironista1631
Lucian1752
satirizer1789
quipster1790
Lucianist1940
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > satire > [noun] > one who employs
satirica1387
satirist1566
Lucianist1585
Juvenal1592
satire1596
Lucian1752
satirizer1789
1752 W. Hodges Christian Plan Pref. p. vi Ridiculed by men of light heads and bad hearts, the Lucians and facetious drolls of their respective ages.
Derivatives
Lucianesque n. in a Lucianic style.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adjective]
satiric1509
satirien1509
satiricala1529
ironical1536
dry1542
Lucianical1561
satirial1579
sardonian1586
ironized1596
sarcasmical1602
ironic1614
Sardinian?1615
sardoin1633
sardonic1638
sarcastical1641
sardan1649
sarcasmous1663
sarcastic1695
witty1700
sarcasmatical1716
caustic1771
nippit1808
Lucianic1820
sardonican1837
quippy1859
sardonical1859
quipsome1881
sarky1912
Lucianesque1969
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer
Lucianical1561
Xenophontean1593
Sidneian1599
Anastasian1621
Theophrastical1662
Menippean1693
Varronian1693
Herodotean1748
Shaftesburian1752
Cervantic1760
Alfredian1762
Swiftian1762
Richardsonian1763
Pepysian1765
Rabelaica1768
Rabelaisian1769
Johnsonian1775
Radcliffian1801
Southeyan1817
Lucianic1820
Xenophontic1822
Thucydidean1826
Walter Scottish1827
Voltairean1833
Juvenalian1839
Dickens-like1841
Dickensian1842
Voltairish1842
Hazlittian1844
Theocritean1846
Dickensish1849
Ruskinian1850
Ruskinesque1854
Dickensy1855
Dickenesque1856
Macaulayesque1856
Ruskinite1856
Thackerayan1857
Ruskinese1863
Macaulayish1865
Walpolian1867
Dickensesque1868
Voltairianized1872
Baconian1874
Balzacian1874
Morrisian1879
Isidorian1882
Poe-like1882
Peacockian1886
Poe-esque1886
Zolaesque1886
Macaulayan1887
Bunyanesque1888
Fieldingesque1888
Junian1888
Meredithian1888
Tacitean1890
Hugoesque1893
Hardyesque1894
Kiplingesque1894
Shawian1894
Maeterlinckian1895
Dickinsonian1896
Stevensonian1897
Austenish1898
Austenian1901
Leverish1903
Pateresque1903
Trollopian1903
Malorian1904
Shavian1904
Brontesque1905
Chestertonian1905
Jamesian1905
Leveresque1905
Jacobean1906
Carrollese1907
Hardyan1907
Stendhalian1907
Turgenevian1908
Ouidaesque1909
Galsworthian1912
Poeish1915
Paterian1918
Sitwellian1920
Conradian1921
Mallarméan1924
Theophrastian1924
Wildean1924
Pirandellian1925
Proustian1925
Flaubertian1926
Wodehousian1926
Joycean1927
Stracheyan1927
Theophrastic1928
Yeatsian1928
Lawrentian1930
Firbankian1931
Melvillean1931
Leavisite1934
Runyonesque1934
Kafka1936
Woolfian1936
Twainian1938
Rilkean1939
Audenesque1940
Hemingwayesque1942
Brontëan1945
Kafkaesque1947
Leavisian1947
Morrisan1949
Orwellian1950
Faulknerian1951
Hemingwayan1951
Greeneian1952
Arnoldian1953
Thurberesque1954
Tolkienian1954
Beckettian1958
Hemingwayish1959
Nabokovian1959
Pinteresque1960
Pinterish1960
Vernean1960
Waughian1960
Bradleian1961
Gravesian1961
Kafkian1962
Jules Vernean1964
Snovian1966
Pinterian1967
Lucianesque1969
Tolkienesque1970
Thoreauvian1975
Stubbsian1979
1969 G. Holmes Florentine Enlightenment 1400–50 iv. 112 Momus is the most substantial of his Lucianesque creations.
Luciˈanic adj.1
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adjective]
satiric1509
satirien1509
satiricala1529
ironical1536
dry1542
Lucianical1561
satirial1579
sardonian1586
ironized1596
sarcasmical1602
ironic1614
Sardinian?1615
sardoin1633
sardonic1638
sarcastical1641
sardan1649
sarcasmous1663
sarcastic1695
witty1700
sarcasmatical1716
caustic1771
nippit1808
Lucianic1820
sardonican1837
quippy1859
sardonical1859
quipsome1881
sarky1912
Lucianesque1969
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer
Lucianical1561
Xenophontean1593
Sidneian1599
Anastasian1621
Theophrastical1662
Menippean1693
Varronian1693
Herodotean1748
Shaftesburian1752
Cervantic1760
Alfredian1762
Swiftian1762
Richardsonian1763
Pepysian1765
Rabelaica1768
Rabelaisian1769
Johnsonian1775
Radcliffian1801
Southeyan1817
Lucianic1820
Xenophontic1822
Thucydidean1826
Walter Scottish1827
Voltairean1833
Juvenalian1839
Dickens-like1841
Dickensian1842
Voltairish1842
Hazlittian1844
Theocritean1846
Dickensish1849
Ruskinian1850
Ruskinesque1854
Dickensy1855
Dickenesque1856
Macaulayesque1856
Ruskinite1856
Thackerayan1857
Ruskinese1863
Macaulayish1865
Walpolian1867
Dickensesque1868
Voltairianized1872
Baconian1874
Balzacian1874
Morrisian1879
Isidorian1882
Poe-like1882
Peacockian1886
Poe-esque1886
Zolaesque1886
Macaulayan1887
Bunyanesque1888
Fieldingesque1888
Junian1888
Meredithian1888
Tacitean1890
Hugoesque1893
Hardyesque1894
Kiplingesque1894
Shawian1894
Maeterlinckian1895
Dickinsonian1896
Stevensonian1897
Austenish1898
Austenian1901
Leverish1903
Pateresque1903
Trollopian1903
Malorian1904
Shavian1904
Brontesque1905
Chestertonian1905
Jamesian1905
Leveresque1905
Jacobean1906
Carrollese1907
Hardyan1907
Stendhalian1907
Turgenevian1908
Ouidaesque1909
Galsworthian1912
Poeish1915
Paterian1918
Sitwellian1920
Conradian1921
Mallarméan1924
Theophrastian1924
Wildean1924
Pirandellian1925
Proustian1925
Flaubertian1926
Wodehousian1926
Joycean1927
Stracheyan1927
Theophrastic1928
Yeatsian1928
Lawrentian1930
Firbankian1931
Melvillean1931
Leavisite1934
Runyonesque1934
Kafka1936
Woolfian1936
Twainian1938
Rilkean1939
Audenesque1940
Hemingwayesque1942
Brontëan1945
Kafkaesque1947
Leavisian1947
Morrisan1949
Orwellian1950
Faulknerian1951
Hemingwayan1951
Greeneian1952
Arnoldian1953
Thurberesque1954
Tolkienian1954
Beckettian1958
Hemingwayish1959
Nabokovian1959
Pinteresque1960
Pinterish1960
Vernean1960
Waughian1960
Bradleian1961
Gravesian1961
Kafkian1962
Jules Vernean1964
Snovian1966
Pinterian1967
Lucianesque1969
Tolkienesque1970
Thoreauvian1975
Stubbsian1979
1820 P. B. Shelley in Lady Shelley Mem. (1859) 136 I had written a Lucianic essay to prove the same thing.
1888 A. Dobson Goldsmith 70 A little in the Lucianic spirit of Fielding's ‘Journey from this World to the Next’.
1922 P. S. Allen Erasmus 6 The outcome of his thoughts..was a Lucianic composition, Moriae Encomium.
1925 A. M. Harmon tr. Lucian IV. 111 The source and character of the reply contribute a truly Lucianic fillip of surprise.
1962 R. P. Adams Better Part of Valor iv. 48 Erasmus couples Lucianic irony with his own special form of wit.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adjective]
satiric1509
satirien1509
satiricala1529
ironical1536
dry1542
Lucianical1561
satirial1579
sardonian1586
ironized1596
sarcasmical1602
ironic1614
Sardinian?1615
sardoin1633
sardonic1638
sarcastical1641
sardan1649
sarcasmous1663
sarcastic1695
witty1700
sarcasmatical1716
caustic1771
nippit1808
Lucianic1820
sardonican1837
quippy1859
sardonical1859
quipsome1881
sarky1912
Lucianesque1969
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer
Lucianical1561
Xenophontean1593
Sidneian1599
Anastasian1621
Theophrastical1662
Menippean1693
Varronian1693
Herodotean1748
Shaftesburian1752
Cervantic1760
Alfredian1762
Swiftian1762
Richardsonian1763
Pepysian1765
Rabelaica1768
Rabelaisian1769
Johnsonian1775
Radcliffian1801
Southeyan1817
Lucianic1820
Xenophontic1822
Thucydidean1826
Walter Scottish1827
Voltairean1833
Juvenalian1839
Dickens-like1841
Dickensian1842
Voltairish1842
Hazlittian1844
Theocritean1846
Dickensish1849
Ruskinian1850
Ruskinesque1854
Dickensy1855
Dickenesque1856
Macaulayesque1856
Ruskinite1856
Thackerayan1857
Ruskinese1863
Macaulayish1865
Walpolian1867
Dickensesque1868
Voltairianized1872
Baconian1874
Balzacian1874
Morrisian1879
Isidorian1882
Poe-like1882
Peacockian1886
Poe-esque1886
Zolaesque1886
Macaulayan1887
Bunyanesque1888
Fieldingesque1888
Junian1888
Meredithian1888
Tacitean1890
Hugoesque1893
Hardyesque1894
Kiplingesque1894
Shawian1894
Maeterlinckian1895
Dickinsonian1896
Stevensonian1897
Austenish1898
Austenian1901
Leverish1903
Pateresque1903
Trollopian1903
Malorian1904
Shavian1904
Brontesque1905
Chestertonian1905
Jamesian1905
Leveresque1905
Jacobean1906
Carrollese1907
Hardyan1907
Stendhalian1907
Turgenevian1908
Ouidaesque1909
Galsworthian1912
Poeish1915
Paterian1918
Sitwellian1920
Conradian1921
Mallarméan1924
Theophrastian1924
Wildean1924
Pirandellian1925
Proustian1925
Flaubertian1926
Wodehousian1926
Joycean1927
Stracheyan1927
Theophrastic1928
Yeatsian1928
Lawrentian1930
Firbankian1931
Melvillean1931
Leavisite1934
Runyonesque1934
Kafka1936
Woolfian1936
Twainian1938
Rilkean1939
Audenesque1940
Hemingwayesque1942
Brontëan1945
Kafkaesque1947
Leavisian1947
Morrisan1949
Orwellian1950
Faulknerian1951
Hemingwayan1951
Greeneian1952
Arnoldian1953
Thurberesque1954
Tolkienian1954
Beckettian1958
Hemingwayish1959
Nabokovian1959
Pinteresque1960
Pinterish1960
Vernean1960
Waughian1960
Bradleian1961
Gravesian1961
Kafkian1962
Jules Vernean1964
Snovian1966
Pinterian1967
Lucianesque1969
Tolkienesque1970
Thoreauvian1975
Stubbsian1979
1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips lxxii. 501 Their moste light, and wanton Lucianicall wittes.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 53 Erasmus scoffingly, as his manner was, in a Lucianicall style.
Luciˈanically adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adverb]
dryly1430
ironiously1532
ironically1535
satirically1590
Lucianically1592
sarcastically1647
sarcasmically1658
sarcasmatically1716
sardonically1842
caustically1850
to put, or speak with, one's tongue in one's cheek1928
sarkily1967
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adverb] > in manner of specific writer
Lucianically1592
Macaulayishly1898
Poeishly1976
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > satire > [adverb]
satirically1590
Lucianically1592
1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. 8 My betters neede not take it grieuously, to be taunted..in that booke, where Saint Peter, & Christ himselfe are Lucianically & scoffingly alleadged.
Lucianism n. admiration and emulation of Lucian.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [noun] > indulgence in or disposition for
satirism1593
satire1829
ironism1899
Lucianism1937
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > imitation or admiration of specific writer
Boswellizing1838
Lucianism1937
1937 C. R. Thompson (title) Lucian and Lucianism in the English Renaissance: an introductory study.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > use caustic or ironic ridicule [verb (intransitive)]
quip1542
slent1567
quib1580
quirk1596
jerk1611
ironize1638
to Lucian it1655
iron1813
skit1821
to come the acid1917
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > practise literary arts [verb (intransitive)] > imitate specific writer
to Lucian it1655
Tacitize1833
Zolaize1886
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > satire > be satirical [verb (intransitive)]
to Lucian it1655
skit1821
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 275 Erasmus in his Dialogues..though..he doth Lucian it too much, yet truth may be discovered under the varnish of his scoffing wit.
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