Associations to the word «Orwellian»

Wiktionary

ORWELLIAN, adjective. Resembling the totalitarian political methods decried in the works of British democratic socialist and writer George Orwell, particularly in the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; characterized by use of misleading terminology, propaganda, censorship, totalitarianism, surveillance and repression.

Dictionary definition

ORWELLIAN, adjective. Of or relating to the works of George Orwell (especially his picture of a future totalitarian state).

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin