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Lovecraftian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /lʌvˈkɹæfti.ən/
• (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English Lovecraft Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Lovecraftian From Lovecraft + -ian, in reference to H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives.

Meanings

1. Frighteningly monstrous and otherworldly, sometimes with terrifyingly unnatural anatomy.
   • The tip of the thing was equipped with long whiplike appendages that writhed around a loose, drooling, toothless mouth large enough to swallow a man whole...Perhaps this was the only thing that the escaping Lovecraftian entity had thus far been able to extrude between the opening Gates — this one finger. 1984, Dean R. Koontz, Darkfall, page 362:
2. Of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
   • That abandonment, incidentally, compelled Sam’s mother to fill her young son’s head with H. P. Lovecraftian horror-style lies about the interior of Emily Dickinson’s house, lies that motivated her son’s break-in to begin with. 2007 September 23, David Bowman, “Torchlit Crit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • Lovecraftian horror
   • Lovecraftian fiction
   • The present story, "Born of the Winds", is one of the best. For one thing, the vision of the story is pure Lovecraftian cosmic pessimism. 2006, A. Blackwood, August Derleth, The Ithaqua Cycle, page 102:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
most Lovecraftian	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more Lovecraftian	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

Translations (11)

ru лавкрафтиа́нский (of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)) · pt lovecraftiano (of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)) · cy Lovecraftaidd (of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)) · ca lovecraftià (of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)) · de lovecraftisch (of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)) · ru лавкра́фтовский (of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)) · pl lovecraftowski (of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)) · fr lovecraftien (of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)) · es lovecraftiano (of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)) · it lovecraftiano (of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)) · de lovecraftianisch (of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937))

wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft

Lovecraftian en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /lʌvˈkɹæfti.ən/
• (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English Lovecraft Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Lovecraftian From Lovecraft + -ian, in reference to H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives.

Meanings

1. A fan of American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
   • Everyone is a “creative anachronist,” but we Lovecraftians, like our cousins in other Buddha-fields of fandom, have elected to live a minority, sectarian existence in what sociologists Berger and Luckmann (The Social Construction of Reality) call a “finite province of meaning.” 2014, Gaiman Neil, Acolytes of Cthulhu, Titan Books, →ISBN:
   • Finally, we can draw a definitive fourth circle, at the absolute heart of HPL’s myth, which contains what most rabid Lovecraftians continue to call, almost in spite of themselves, the “great texts.” 2005, Michel Houellebecq, translated by Dorna Khazeni, H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, Cernunnos, Abrams Books, published 2019, →ISBN:
   • For zealous Lovecraftians there are a few choice tidbits—a short autobiography, his commonplace book, and his “History and Chronology of the Necronomicon.” 1944, The New York Times Book Review, page 19:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
Lovecraftians	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Relateds

Necronomicon · Cthulhu

wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft