| 单词 | Gilbertian |
| 释义 | Gilbertian (once / 251475 pages) adj WORD FAMILY Gilbert: Gilbertian, Gilberts USAGE EXAMPLESWhen Jean Louise felt apprehensive, expectant, or on edge, especially when confronting her aunt, her brain clicked to the meter of Gilbertian tomfoolery. Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman: A Novel(2015) Of a truth the complete topsy-turveydom of the eternal fitness of things involved by the arrangement struck him as positively Gilbertian. Mitford, Bertram, The Red Derelict(2011) “A Gilbertian idea, to say the least,” I smiled. Eaton, Walter Prichard, Penguin Persons & Peppermints(2010) 1adj of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert Gilbertian libretti 2adj wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas "a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings"- T.C.Worsley Syn humorous, humourous full of or characterized by humor |
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