Wagnerian
/vɑːɡˈnɪəriən
/adjective
1Relating to or characteristic of the operas of Richard Wagner: arduous Wagnerian roles...
- The composer has mastered completely the art of the Wagnerian leitmotif.
- Overnight she became the pre-eminent Wagnerian soprano of her generation.
- The professor's passion was Wagnerian operas.
1.1Having the enormous dramatic scale and intensity of a Wagner opera: a strategic predicament of positively Wagnerian proportions...
- The Wagnerian drama then unfolded: the market crashed, and the car industry collapsed.
- He was literally larger than life and had an impossibly dramatic Wagnerian voice.
- This shows philistinism on a Wagnerian scale.
noun
1An admirer of the German composer Richard Wagner or his music: I’m attacked by the Wagnerians who think I am dragging him through the mud...
- He was well read and well versed in music—something of a Wagnerian—but he didn't throw his cultural weight about, preferring to gently prod the conversation.
- King Ludwig II of Bavaria built him a home and theatre at Bayreuth, which is still a pilgrimage point for Wagnerians today.
- We have a lot of grass-roots support for the project from dedicated Wagnerians.
1.1A performer of the music of the German composer Richard Wagner: how she will develop as a Wagnerian remains to be seen...
- How she will develop as a Wagnerian remains to be seen.
- His Wotan proves him one of the great Wagnerians of our time.
- Whatever his weaknesses, he is among the finest living Wagnerians.
Rhymes
- distractable
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- distractedly
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- distracting
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- distraction burglar
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- distractor
- distrain
- distrainer
- distrainment
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- distraught
- distress
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- distressed area
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- distressingly
- distress rocket