Gilbertian Definition

gilbertian
adjective
  1. of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert; "Gilbertian libretti"
  2. wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; "a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings"- T.C.Worsley

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