English Explanatory Dictionary

Strangelovian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to nuclear apocalypse, especially through incompetence or shortsightedness.

Word forms

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Etymology

From Strangelove + -ian, referring to the title character in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a black comedy satirizing the nuclear weapons scare.

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