Gilbertian

Definitions: Gilbertian

Gilbertian

Adjective

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.

Usage Frequency: Gilbertian

"Gilbertian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gilbertian" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Gilbertian

Language		Translations for "Gilbertian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Turkish		gülünç (amusing, burlesque, camp, comic, derisive, derisory, droll, fantastic, fantastical, foolish, funny, grotesque, humorous, jesting, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), komik (amusing, burlesque, comedian, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, funnyman, humorous, jesting, jocose, laugh, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, rum, rummy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Gilbertian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: liberating.
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-i-l-n-r-t"
	-1 letter: ignitable, librating, rebaiting, retailing.
	-2 letters: alerting, altering, berating, bilinear, blearing, bleating, brailing, gainlier, inertial, integral, rebating, relating, retiling, ringtail, tabering, tangible, tanglier, tinglier, trailing, trebling, triangle.
	-3 letters: airline, airting, aligner, atingle, bailing, baiting, bearing, beating, belting, bilgier, birling, blaring, elating, engrail, gelatin, genital, gilbert, granite, gratine, igniter, inertia, ingrate, intagli, lairing, latrine, librate.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-i-i-l-n-r-t"
	+1 letter: libertinage.
	+2 letters: deliberating, libertinages, obliterating, pregnability.
	+3 letters: detribalizing, equilibrating, germinability, integrability, recalibrating, relubricating, restabilizing.
	+4 letters: bioregionalist, defibrillating, frangibilities, impregnability, pregnabilities, reestablishing, refrangibility, rehabilitating.
	+5 letters: bioregionalists, germinabilities, integrabilities, preestablishing, recognizability.
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