Gatesian

English

Etymology

From Gates +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Gatesian (comparative more Gatesian, superlative most Gatesian)

1. Of or pertaining to Henry Louis Gates (born 1950), American critic and scholar, or his theories or writings.
   • 1999, Katherine Clay Bassard, Spiritual interrogations:

     The central critique of the applicability of Gatesian revisionism for a narrative of African American women's literary tradition was framed by Hortense Spillers in 1985...

   • 2001, Shirley A Stave, Gloria Naylor: strategy and technique, magic and myth:

     In a Gatesian sense, Naylor signifies on Cane in her work...

   • 2004, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Seeing the unspeakable: the art of Kara Walker:

     Further, Walker is signifying in a Gatesian way on a particularly racialized history...

2. Of or pertaining to Bill Gates (born 1955), American businessman and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.
   • 1992, James Wallace, Jim Erickson, Hard drive: Bill Gates and the making of the Microsoft empire:

     ...paint a grandiose picture about what Microsoft could do, the Gatesian vision.

   • 2008, James A Duke, Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin, Andrea R Ottesen, Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America:

     Friends and vague listeners may have heard me urging a "Gatesian" computerized approach...

   • 2008, David P Reiter, Primary Instinct:

     The projector and the computer bump into each other in Gatesian cyberspace, and we're off.

Anagrams

• saginate, againest, Saganite