adjective વિશેષણ

Dickensian meaning in gujarati

ડિકેન્સિયન

  • Pronunciation

    /dɪˈkɛn.zɪ.ən/

  • Definition

    of or like the novels of Charles Dickens (especially with regard to poor social and economic conditions)

    ચાર્લ્સ ડિકન્સની નવલકથાઓ (ખાસ કરીને નબળી સામાજિક અને આર્થિક પરિસ્થિતિના સંદર્ભમાં)

adjective વિશેષણ

Dickensian meaning in gujarati

ડિકેન્સિયન

  • Definitions

    1. Reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens' writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England.

    ડિકન્સના લખાણોમાં સામાન્ય રીતે દર્શાવવામાં આવેલા વાતાવરણ અને પરિસ્થિતિઓની યાદ અપાવે છે, જેમ કે ગરીબી, સામાજિક અન્યાય અને વિક્ટોરિયન ઈંગ્લેન્ડના અન્ય પાસાઓ.

  • Examples:
    1. As earlier implied, the planet is threatened on three major fronts: (3) by a Dickensian world of wretched excess and wretched despair.

    2. As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse.

    3. Down in the subway under the roundabout the looming social ordeal started to weigh down on me, By the time I pressed a huge and over-polished brass bell I'd devolved into a shifty-eyed, cinder-cheeked Dickensian urchin, and when the door opened I half expected to see Mrs Bridges throw up her fat, floury hands and scream for the cook's boy.

    4. Leaning against piracy fits in with China's desire to cast off its image of a country where exploited workers toil for a pittance in Dickensian factories that turn the air and water black with the pollution they discharge.

  • Synonyms

    Dickensianly (ડિકેન્સિયનલી)