What is the meaning of gilbertian?

adjective

  • Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert.
    • usage: "Gilbertian libretti"
  • Wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas. "a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings- T. C. Worsley
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