This week’s theme
Eponymic adjectives

This week’s words
Damoclean
Penelopean
melpomenish
Alician
Atlantean

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(uh-LISH-uhn)

MEANING:

adjective: Surreal, whimsical, or illogical.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Alice, the heroine of Lewis Carroll’s books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). Earliest documented use: 1898. See also: words coined by Lewis Carroll.

USAGE:

“I’d been looking forward to a new adventure, but this had now become my third visit to the Alician realm.”
Raquel Lyon; Foxblood; 2013.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: