Orwellian

== English == === Etymology === From Orwell +‎ -ian. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ɔɹˈwɛli.ən/ (UK) IPA(key): /ɔːˈwɛli.ən/ Hyphenation: Or‧well‧i‧an === Adjective === Orwellian (comparative more Orwellian, superlative most Orwellian) 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. [1950] 1950, Peter Viereck, Public Affairs volume 13, p. 22, published by the Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University (later republished in 1953 in Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals: Babbitt Jr. Vs. the Rediscovery of Values by the Beacon Press p. 204) “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.’” ==== Synonyms ==== 1984-esque 1984-ish Orwellesque ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also ===