Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert;
- Example: "Gilbertian libretti"2.
wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas;
- Example: "a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings"- T.C.Worsley
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gilbertian \Gilbertian\ prop. a.
1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the style of
William S. Gilbert; as, Gilbertian libretti.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. Wildly comic and improbable, as in Gilbert and Sullivan
operas; as, Gilbertian coincidences.
[WordNet 1.5]
a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and
changelings. --T. C.
Worsley
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Gilbertian
adj 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