Orwellian

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɔːˈwɛli.ən/    美 /ɔɹˈwɛli.ən/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling the totalitarian political methods decried in the works of writer George Orwell, particularly in the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; characterized by use of misleading terminology, propaganda, censorship, surveillance and repression.
    — “But they soon find out that an enforced equality, without free individualism to temper it, becomes an Orwellian nightmare-version of the workers' paradise, in which ‘all are equal, but some are more equal than others.’”
  2. Resembling, or having to do with, George Orwell, and especially his novel 1984.

词形变化

more Orwellian comparative most Orwellian superlative

词汇关系

近义词
1984-esque 1984-ish Orwellesque
衍生词
Orwellianism Orwellianly
相关词
Big Brother Dickensian doublethink dystopian Kafkaesque Newspeak totalitarian

词源

Etymology tree
English Orwell
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Orwellian
From Orwell + -ian.
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