A.Word.A.Day -- AWADmail Issue 1163

I would like to propose Picardian. It describes a style of leadership where the leader gathers the best minds available for their input. All opinions are listened to regardless of the speaker’s area of expertise. From the style adopted by Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the starship USS Enterprise in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
-John Martin-Brown, Mount Gambier, Australia (jmbcoaching gmail.com)

Trumpian, of course -- as everything he purports to be, or says about himself, is total fiction/fabrication/falsehood. Doesn’t that make him a fictional character?
-Barb Carmichael, East Lansing, Michigan (carmichbj71 gmail.com)

Jamisonian: After Matt Jamison, the preacher from the HBO show The Leftovers. Describing a person or event in which the subject commits acts of loyalty and piety that are less selfless than they are self-serving, to appear “better than” to people and to God.
Usage: Her jamisonian dedication to her children fooled no one, as Karen endlessly bragged to other mothers that she was willing to sacrifice her own career for the betterment of her children.
Notes: Matt Jamison spent four years caring for his vegetative wife, Mary, only to have her wake up and leave him. When he meets God (a man named David Burton), Matt is confronted by his own hypocrisy of serving others as a way to please God.
-Kelly Smith, Houston, Texas (akellysmith icloud.com)

Eponine from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. The adjective form would mean tragic as was her short life. If my idea is not accepted, this will be a truly eponinic eponym.
-Steve Benko, New York, New York (stevebenko1 gmail.com)

I would propose Inigoian after Inigo Montoya from the film The Princess Bride. Its meaning would be “repetitive to an extreme degree”. “Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father; prepare to die!” (video, 2 min.)
-Don Fearn, Duluth, Minnesota (pooder charter.net)

Kafka’s Josef K from The Trial should be an eponymous adjective. Seeing as how we often are left flailing helplessly in the face of bizarre bureaucratic behavior, I think it would get a lot of use.
“I had a K morning dealing with the phone company. Their system ran me in a long loop of pressing numeric keys that ended where it began without accomplishing anything. Then they put me in an hour-long queue to speak to a human, and when the wait was down to five minutes they hung up on me because it was five o’clock.”
-Paul Baerman, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (pwbaerman gmail.com)

Little Nellian: Describing someone who takes forever to die.
After Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop whose death was inevitable but who takes 654 pages to join the angels.
Example: The heirs sitting in the next room complained that Aunt Fanny is being her usual Little Nellian self.
-Ron Blumer, New York, New York (blumer panix.com)

Frodosian, from The Lord of the Rings, to describe someone who sacrifices comfort and tranquility to take up a daunting task for the greater good. I think there are many Frodos among us who go unrecognized.
-Ryan Lennon, Rochester, Minnesota (lennon.ryan.j gmail.com)

I offer Garfieldian after the fictional comic strip character Garfield as an adjective meaning “shallow-thinking”.
Example: “Over the past decades, the United States has evolved into a Garfieldian society.” I think a significant factor as to why the current race for the presidency is so close is the erosion of critical thinking within the population. A combination of advertising and entertainment has deliberately undermined people’s ability to think in order to make them more efficient consumers. At the same time, our educational system, news media, and cultural values have shifted in order to compete for our attention rather than attempt to counterbalance this change by pushing the public to think more carefully.
The artwork and gags were intentionally simple and non-controversial and the strip’s repetitive themes aligned with such consumer values as a disdain for Mondays and dieting and a preference for coffee, lasagna, laziness, and obsessive eating. (Ref.)
(It is important to note that the fact that Garfield is fat and orange is purely a coincidence.)
-Ken Kirste, Sunnyvale, California (kkkirste sbcglobal.net)

Charles Dickens provides a font of potential adjectives derived from his characters. Here is one from Great Expectations. Mistress Havisham, who was jilted at the altar and wears her wedding dress every day for the rest of her life. Havishamian: describing a person who waits for something to happen, even though it is clear that it will never happen.
Example: Despite the fact that she polishes off a pint of ice cream and a bag of Oreos every evening, in her usual havishamian manner Maude continues to order clothes in the same petite size as she wore 20 years ago.
-Muffie Meyer, New York, New York (meyer middlemarch.com)

Cyranoian: Having a long nose and a kind heart.
-Louis Phillips, New York, New York (louisprofphillips gmail.com)