English Explanatory Dictionary

Ahabian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. tyrannically monomaniac

Word forms

Ahabian more Ahabian most Ahabian

Etymology

From Ahab + -ian, after the fictional captain in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick who is obsessed with killing a whale who once injured him.

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