Greta Thunbergian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Greta Thunbergian
form: most Greta Thunbergian
Etymology: From Greta Thunberg + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: How dare you? A Greta Thunbergian appeal to climate scientists
ref: 2019 October 3, Anders Gullberg, “How dare you? A Greta Thunbergian appeal to climate scientists”, in Mistra SAMS, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2020:
text: Mr. Limbaugh, the New York Times and social justice warriors throughout the fruited plain were revulsed by James’ lack of empathy for the persecuted Hong Kong throng. In near-universal rejection of his cold-heartedness, James’ critics responded with a full-throated, Greta Thunbergian “How dare you!”
ref: 2019 October 24, Fraser P. Seitel, “LeBron and the limits of social responsibility”, in O’Dwyer’s, volume 33, number 7, New York, N.Y.: J.R. O’Dwyer Co., Inc., published November 2019, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2019, page 46:
text: Leona loves attention. In one interview, she says people like her are the leaders of the nation, and that the old people — presumably anyone over 30 — should move over. This is a very Greta Thunbergian principle at work: to take over the world virtually in your teens and rule.
ref: 2020 February 25, C.P. Surendran, “In India sedition gets a new meaning”, in Gulf News, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2020:
text: Today, the question for campaigners is how far to go down the line of Greta Thunbergian protests and school climate strikes (suspended, it turns out, now that schools are closed in the lockdown) — and the more extreme measures of, say, Extinction Rebellion.
ref: 2020 March 30, Anne McElvoy, “Greta has truly done wonders”, in Evening Standard, pages 16–17:
text: We need global solidarity, a Greta Thunbergian global network that would help halt and divert the process of climate change.
ref: 2022 January 19, Rein Raud, quotee, translated by Kristi Lahne, “How to get rid of a nightmare? | A discussion.”, in Medium (Library of Biotoopia), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: “It seems odd that Manchin would choose as his legacy to be the one man who single-handedly doomed humanity,” blustered arch-progressive John Podesta, in typical false Greta Thunbergian rhetoric.
ref: 2022 July 16, Post Editorial Board, “Dems’ drive for solar, wind is about punishing the public, not saving the planet”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2022:
text: The opening scene of the series presents a 2037 version of a foul-mouthed, Greta Thunbergian youth activist lecturing the world via hologram.
ref: 2023 April 10, James Pethokoukis, “‘Extrapolations’ Imagines a Dystopian Climate Future Leading to Nowhere. Because Humans Suck.”, in American Enterprise Institute, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: In their performativity, [Antonin] Artaud’s Mexico texts express the Greta Thunbergian beauty of carrying out an ‘official mission’ no civic authority has ever commissioned—although Artaud did travel owing to diplomatic courtesy—a beauty traversing the border between cultural criticism and literature.
ref: 2024, Sandra Fluhrer, “Reusing Artaud? On the Contemporaneity of Messages révolutionnaires (1936)”, in Benjamin Kohlmann, Ivana Perica, editors, The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920–2020, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, part I (Revolution, Internationalism, and Literary Politics: Interwar Paradigms):
glosses: Synonym of Thunbergian (“of or relating to Greta Thunberg”).
synonyms: word: Thunbergian
extra: of or relating to Greta Thunberg