Associations to the word «Gilbertian»
Wiktionary
GILBERTIAN, adjective. Pertaining to, or in the style of the dramatist and librettist W. S. Gilbert; ludicrously comic
Dictionary definition
GILBERTIAN, adjective. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert; "Gilbertian libretti".
GILBERTIAN, adjective. Wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; "a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings"- T.C.Worsley.
Wise words
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.