a character study

perhaps the only honor for an author greater than having his or her name adjectivised is having the name of his or her characters adjectivised. here are a few that i was able to find (irregulars are italic):

Arthurian, Bunyanesque*, daedal, Dryasdustic†, Falstaffian, Faustian, gargantuan, Herculean, Holmesian, narcissistic, Œdipal, Panglossian, Pecksniffian, pickwickian, quixotic

for the record, the hierarchy of literary adjectivisation goes something like this:

author’s name < character’s name < author’s name in lowercase < character’s name in lowercase (lowercase is the best case)

the ultimate achievements in this regard are cervantes, rabelais and dickens.

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*were i to venn these character terms with the previously posted auctorial terms, you would note that the single overlap is bunyanesque, referring both to john the writer and paul the folktale hero.

†a great summary word for this post.