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Definition of Gilbertian

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert. "Gilbertian libretti"

2. Adjective. Wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas. "A Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings"

Definition of Gilbertian

1. Adjective. Pertaining to, or in the style of the dramatist and librettist W. S. Gilbert; ludicrously comic ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gilbertian

Gila Desert Gila River Gila monster Gila monsters Gilaki Gilbert Gilbert's syndrome Gilbert Charles Stuart Gilbert Islands Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Murray Gilbert Stuart Gilbert and Ellice Islands Gilbert and Sullivan Gilbertese Gilbertian (current term) Gilchrist's disease Gilchrist's mycosis Gilead Giles

Giles Lytton Strachey Gilgal Gilgamesh Gilgamish Gilgit Gilham Gillam Gillard Gillatt

Literary usage of Gilbertian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... visits to Africa—Henry A. Lytton—Gilbertian actor of many parts—Touring—Its bright and its dark side—Company snowed up—Leicester ..."

2. Modern Argentina, the El Dorado of To-day: With Notes on Uruguay and Chile by William Henry Koebel (1907)
"... of the necessity of temporising—Destruction involved by the struggle—Gilbertian officers—Criminals and the law—Some instances of legal procedure. ..."

3. The Savoy opera and the Savoyards by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1894)
"This humour is specially ' Gilbertian.' There is something grotesque in this exuberant praise of the Sally Lunn and bun which would bring a rueful smile to ..."

4. Pages from an Adventurous Life by Joyce Emmerson Muddock (1907)
"... and am mainly instrumental in getting the improvements carried out — I settle in the south of France — My friend the Prince—A Gilbertian situation—An ..."

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