Doctor Whovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Doctor Whovian
form: most Doctor Whovian
Etymology: From Doctor Who + -v- + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: […] it contains all-original short stories by a swarm of the usual Doctor-Whovian suspects: Jonathan Blum, Martin Day, Paul Ebbs, Jim Mortimore, Kate Orman, Justin Richards, Dave Stone and many others.
ref: 2004 spring, Interzone, number 193, page 62, column 1:
text: This is not the sleek white Apple-store vision of the future, but something altogether Doctor Whovian in its sensibilities, as enamored with the past as with the future’s mind-boggling possibilities.
ref: 2015 September 16, Amelia Mason, “How A Music Futurist Composes The Future”, in WBUR, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2023:
text: In a surreal multimedia performance-lecture, Nina Stuhldreher recounts an artistic research trip which accidentally turned into a Doctor Whovian robinsonade.
ref: 2016, “Nootropics and the Last Frontier of (Un)consciousness”, in Bristol Biennial 2016: In Other Worlds, page 24:
text: Except, that was Moriarty in the bride's frock, and none of this was real, because it was all taking place in one of Sherlock's mind palaces, that Doctor Whovian device whereby Messrs Moffat and Gatiss can do exactly what they want with their lead characters, in this case, tell a head-scratching one-off tale, while they wait for their two stars to pause making blockbusting films long enough to make a whole series.
ref: 2016 January 1, Caroline Frost, “'Sherlock: The Abominable Bride' Review Finds Benedict Cumberbatch And Martin Freeman Suffering Time Constraints”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2023:
text: One part of this is the Doctor Whovian urge to hide behind the sofa, but it’s far more than that.
ref: 2017 January, Kieron Gillen, “Life and Darth”, in SFX, number 281, page 60:
text: The "I" here also could refer to Offa talking about himself in that sort of Doctor Whovian floating between the eighth century and the twentieth century.
ref: 2020, Nadia Ali Ismael, “Anachronism in Geoffrey Hill's 'Mercian Hymns'”, in Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies, volume 5, number 1, published February 2021, →ISSN, page 75:
text: 1990 / Chris Lydgate built a Dalek with his Doctor Whovian kids.
ref: 2021 March, Reed Magazine, volume 100, number 1, Portland, Ore.: the Office of Public Affairs at Reed College, →ISSN, page 38, column 1:
text: Oh, sure Polestar was already Volvo’s racing team and go-faster division before its Doctor Whovian electric regeneration, and Californian dentists had access to a Genesis, but in the UK these are brand-new, um, brands.
ref: 2022 August 19, Ollie Kew, “Genesis GV60 vs Polestar 2: EV newbie showdown”, in Top Gear, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022:
text: Controlling the game with blinks is something we have seen done before, particularly with the well-regarded Before Your Eyes on PC, but tying that to some sort of Doctor Whovian monster mechanic in which the creatures can grab you if you blink too much is absolutely the best/worst possible application for this kind of game mechanic.
ref: 2022 November 2, Lee Brady, “The Dark Pictures comes to PS VR2 with essentially Doctor Who angels”, in TrueTrophies, TrueGaming Network Ltd, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2022:
text: There are any number of Doctor-Whovian plots that could place the two together — failed mutation experiment, secondary mutation (a la Beast from "The X-Men," for example), or even a portal accident (which, in a fun Easter egg, would prove Geralt's well-documented disdain for the magic true).
ref: 2022 December 29, Chris Condry, “12 Witcher Stories Netflix Should Tell After Blood Origin”, in Looper, Static Media, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2022:
glosses: Synonym of Whovian.
synonyms: word: Whovian