English Explanatory Dictionary

Oblomovian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Lazy and apathetic.

Word forms

Oblomovian more Oblomovian most Oblomovian

Etymology

From Oblomov + -ian, after the nobleman who rarely leaves his bed in Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomov (1859).

Related words

Oblomovism
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