Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
👧 A girl's name 🎵 A song title 🌙 A moon of Uranus 🖼️ A famous painting
Ophelia

Ophelia

17 8.4
A girl's name from the tragic character in Shakespeare's Hamlet
  • proper noun
  • /oʊˈfiːliə/
: Ofelia
  • But what if Hamlet really is crazy, and what if his love for Ophelia has driven him there?
  • Hamlet and Ophelia
  • Ophelia is mad
  • Ophelia's grave

Well, and I looked at, I just Googled names similar to Adet, Odessa, Ophelia, Cosette, Minerva.

Examples

  • What is it, Ophelia, he hath said to you?

    Hamlet (2000)

  • This is Jen, looking a lot like Ophelia tonight.

    SLC Punk (1998)

  • I found Ophelia dead in her room.

    Fright Flick (2011)

  • How is Ophelia in this scene?

    The Libertine (2004)

  • But unlike the beautiful Ophelia, this young woman was anything but pretty.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Oh, the Bard's always been close to my heart, from the first time I played Ophelia.

    Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

  • In the drawing, the figure of the dead wife floats like Ophelia on the surface of the water.

    Academic text (1992)

  • I was named after Ophelia, the bipolar basket-case in Hamlet, who committed suicide.

    Savages (2012)

  • This lovely garden and charming tennis court... ...was the site of Mr. Beauregard's wedding... ...to the exquisite Miss Ophelia Prescott.

    Exit to Eden (1994)

  • In Shakespeare's play, Ophelia is a tragic figure who succumbs to madness.

Surface Forms

Ophelia main

Etymology

Ophelia comes from a Greek root ophel- meaning 'help' or 'helper'. Shakespeare made the name famous for a gentle but tragic character, so today the name often brings her story to mind.