Adamsian
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Adamsian (comparative more Adamsian, superlative most Adamsian)
- Of or relating to Douglas Adams (1952–2001), English writer, humorist, and dramatist.
- 1995, Brian M. Stableford, Algebraic Fantasies and Realistic Romances:
- In the Adamsian worldview the legendary four horsemen, were they to arrive at all, would be far more worried about whether they ought to stop off for a hamburger before getting on with the job than anything to do with their actual work […]
- 2005, Douglas Adams, Dirk Maggs, Bruce Hyman, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts, page 222:
- one of the greatest pieces of Adamsian whimsy in existence
- 2012, Nicholas Joll, Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, page 23:
- Other Adamsian enthusiasms included: fast cars; restaurants; Bach, the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits; […]