English Explanatory Dictionary

Wertherian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Relating to or reminiscent of The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774, with a theme of heartbreak leading to suicide.

Word forms

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Etymology

From Werther + -ian.

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