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GILBERTIAN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas
Example:
a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings
Classified under:
Similar:
humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert
Example:
Gilbertian libretti
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Gilbert (United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934))
Derivation:
Gilbert (a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911))
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