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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats