Dilbertian

English

Adjective

Dilbertian (comparative more Dilbertian, superlative most Dilbertian)

1. Relating to, or reminiscent of, Dilbert, a satirical American comic strip about a micromanaged white-collar office worker surrounded by ineptitude and corruption.

   Synonym: Dilbertesque

   • 2000, Rick Fleeter, The Logic of Microspace, page 291:

     Thus do the Dilbertian wars commence. Well-meaning engineers and project leaders try to bankrupt the company, while I try to sabotage their programs.

   • 2009, J. Scott Turner, The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, page 15:

     Common numbers like distances would never be expressed in megameters or nanomiles — it would bring us too close to the Dilbertian world of pocket protectors and calculator holsters.