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Gilbertian

adj

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

    "Whatever the pressures that have invoked the Minister's diktat, the outcome is Gilbertian."

Adjective
  1. 1
    wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas wordnet
  2. 2
    of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert wordnet

Etymology

From Gilbert + -ian.

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