Meaning of 1984-ish | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or pertaining to a totalitarian society, especially one characterised by intensive surveillance of the population.

informal

Examples

“I have no idea what this 1984-ish-sounding organization actually does, though I suspect it has something to do with industrial processes.”

“The poems were then posted on a Library of Congress website, and high school principals were encouraged in the slightly 1984-ish task of reading them over their loud speakers each morning at the beginning of the school day.”

“A truly 1984-ish paradox. What had gone down the memory hole?”

“All these technologies sound a bit ominous and 1984-ish when taken out of context.”

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