This week’s theme
Eponyms

This week’s words
Mae West
Adonic
vandal
nimrodize
Chadband

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PRONUNCIATION:

(uh-DAH/DOH-nik)

MEANING:

adjective: Strikingly handsome.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Adonis, a very handsome youth in Greek mythology. There’s a verb coined after him, as well: adonize. Earliest documented use: 1579.

USAGE:

“The back cover of ‘Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite’ shows [Roger Daltrey] in all his tousle-haired, bare-chested, early-70s Adonic glory.”
Tony Fletcher; The Hardest-Working Man in Rock; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Dec 15, 2018.

See more usage examples of Adonic in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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