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GILBERTIAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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:

Adjectives

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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