Faulknerian

adjective

Faulk·​ner·​ian fȯk-ˈnir-ē-ən 

-ˈner-

: of, relating to, or suggestive of William Faulkner or his writings: such as

a

: evoking the landscape and culture of the postbellum American South

Jimmy Lee [Swaggart] was born into a Faulknerian clan of delta drifters, who took to gambling and brawling as well as to Pentecostal speaking in tongues.

—Kenneth L. Woodward with Vincent Coppola

b

: having a dense, wordy, or stream-of-consciousness style

The Democratic platform … assails the Reagan Administration's economic record in one Faulknerian sentence, a 129-word diatribe …

—Henry Weinstein

Word History

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Faulknerian

• arion
• carrion
• clarion
• hereon
• marian
• parian
• agrarian
• aquarian
• barbarian
• bavarian
• bulgarian
• cimmerian