Aesopian

comparative more Aesopian · superlative most Aesopian · alternative Aesopean · alternative archaic Æsopean · alternative archaic Æsopian · alternative Esopean · alternative Esopian

1. not comparableRelated to or concerning the Greek fabulist Aesop.
2. comparableCharacteristic of Aesop's animal fables.
3. comparableEmploying or having an ambiguous or allegorical meaning, especially a political meaning.

   When a government makes it impossible for people to talk about actions of the government that the population rejects, as often happened in Soviet times, those who still want to talk about such things and to bring to the attention of others their thoughts routinely turn to Aesopian language.

   2026 January 29, Paul A. Goble, “Aesopian Language Lives – Baikal Portal Carries Major Article on How Another Russian War to Annex Foreign Territory Sparked a Revolution at Home”, in Window on Eurasia