Darth Vaderish

English

Alternative forms

• Darth Vader-ish, Darth Vader–ish, Darth-Vaderish

Etymology

From Darth Vader +‎ -ish.

Adjective

Darth Vaderish (comparative more Darth Vaderish, superlative most Darth Vaderish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of Darth Vader.
   • 1983 May 24, David Edelstein, “Man out to lunch”, in The Boston Phoenix, section three, page 3, column 4:

     From the Darth Vaderish heavy breathing that opens this show to the whooping and ooga-booga caveman gibberish, whistling chimes, and seductive African percussion, Levine’s score is a trash compacter powered by pure silliness.

   • 1985, Donald N. McCloskey, The Rhetoric of Economics, The University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 51:

     In our actual practice in daily life and thought, though, we are all fuzzies, even we economists, however glinty and Darth Vaderish we think we are made by mastery of the identification problem and the Kuhn-Tucker conditions.

   • 1991, Stan Cutler, The Face on the Cutting Room Floor, Signet, published 1993, →ISBN, page 14:

     I had just opened the rear door when out the corner of my eye I began to get an inkling maybe somebody had figured where Cifelli had an office as a very Darth Vaderish black-windowed sedan slid into view, the windows slowly lowering.

Synonyms

• Darth Vader-esque, Vaderesque
• Darth Vaderian