Adjective

1. Pertaining to or resembling the works of George Orwell, especially in reference to the dystopia in Nineteen Eighty-Four
2. Frightening and overcontrolled by a government that interferes in nearly every aspect of personal life

Quotations

• 1954 The Orwellian slogan that "War is Peace" was, consciously or unconsciously, from the beginning adopted by both conflicting groups within the U.N. - Sisley Huddleston - Popular Diplomacy and War