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Chekhovian

[ che-koh-vee-uhn, -kaw-fee-, -kof-ee-; chek-aw-fee-uhn, -of-ee- ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Chekhovian1

First recorded in 1920–25; Chekhov + -ian
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Example Sentences

He was like some cryptic English-Chekhovian figure, playing out the last days of his private, imagined Raj.

But at the same time there is a Chekhovian side of Coward waiting to be mined.

Well, not quite Chekhovian, but it that Chekhovian moment of intimacy that just sort of wafts away.

He invented wonderful Chekhovian names, of which I now—alas!

His Chekhovian mots and those little traits that astonish us by their neatness and appositeness, he often took direct from life.

But it is his prodigious fantasy that makes the point of his departure from the Chekhovian formula.

O, the overwhelming depth of these simple, ordinary, very Chekhovian words!

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