Kurtzian

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adjective

Megalomaniac; brutal, tyrannical.

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Meanings

adjectiveKurtzian (comparative more Kurtzian, superlative most Kurtzian)

comparative more Kurtzian · superlative most Kurtzian

  1. Megalomaniac; brutal, tyrannical.
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    […]imagine Caleb’s excitement and fear when he wins an in-house competition to spend a week alone with the firm’s reclusive, scarily Kurtzian founder, Nathan (bullishly played by Oscar Isaac), in his gigantic fortress of solitude on a private island—it looks like the one where they built Jurassic Park.

    2015 January 22, Peter Bradshaw, “Ex Machina review – an elegant but limited artificial intelligence thriller”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin

From Kurtz + -ian, after the fictional character Kurtz in the novel Heart of Darkness.

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APA

Kurtzian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kurtzian

MLA

“Kurtzian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kurtzian. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kurtzian,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kurtzian.

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