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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