Adamic

Also A·dam·i·cal

[uh-dam-ik, ad-uh-mik]

adjective

1. pertaining to or suggestive of Adam.

Other Word Forms

• Adamically adverb
• post-Adamic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Adamic¹

First recorded in 1650–60; Adam + -ic

Example Sentences

The Slovenian transplant Louis Adamic, who had emigrated to the United States in 1913 and settled in the port community of San Pedro, scrutinized Southern California with pitiless objectivity in a 1930 essay titled “Los Angeles! There she blows!”

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Adamic mentioned the conviction among Angelenos that their city “will ultimately — perhaps within the next three or four decades — be the biggest city in the world.”

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Adamic coined the phrase “the enormous village” to describe life here, as if L.A. were a small town that had grown too large.

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Although also woefully out of print, Mayo’s 1933 exegesis is, along with James M. Cain’s essay “Paradise” and Louis Adamic’s “Laughing in the Jungle,” among the great early studies of the city.

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Operating in the contrarian tradition of Adamic, McWilliams and Davis, Klein looks through the lens of memory at a place that grew up so quickly it can sometimes seem to exist in an everlasting present tense.

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