agelast
Syllables: age·last/ˈæd͡ʒəˌlæst/
agelast noun: one who never laughs (especially at jokes); a mirthless person.
Noun
agelast (plural agelasts)
- One who never laughs (especially at jokes); a mirthless person.
- As a real agelast in a comedy, he is beaten. The beating of an agelast is the most important point of the comedy.2005, Arkady Kovelman, Between Alexandria and Jerusalem: The Dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic Culture, Koninklijke Brill, page 50
- Declaring with Doumergue that "Rabelais and Calvin (and Olivétan) were the creators of French literary prose,"²⁵ Bakhtin adds "Even the agelast Calvin wrote a pamphlet about relics with a certain comic overtone."²⁶ The single, and unusual word "agelast" summarizes the popular view of John Calvin: a...2008, Charles Partee, The Theology of John Calvin, Westminster John Knox Press, page 10
- Antonyms:
- gelast, laugher, cachinnator, hypergelast
agelast meaning in Tamil
agelast in Tamil
- சிடுமூஞ்சி
Examples of agelast in a sentence
- For Kundera, agelasts represent the opposite of the spirit of the novel; the novel is born from the sense of humor and not from theoretical thinking.2016, Mika Hallila, “Chapter 7: How the Novel Laughs”, in Rafał Borysławski, Justyna Jajszczok, Jakub Wolff, Alicja Bemben, editors...
- Agelasts have a very clear idea that they have patent regarding both the truth and the mission and are so bloody solemn that they just cannot accept other views.2023, Benjamin Katz, Transcending Creators’ Trilogy in the Era of Growing Global Idiocrasy, Xlibris, unnumbered page:
Antonyms of agelast
Forms of agelast
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Origin of agelast
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγέλαστος (agélastos, “not laughing”), from γελάω (geláō, “to laugh”). Attributed to a French coinage by François Rabelais (ca.1483–1494—1553).
Questions about agelast
- What does agelast mean?
- Agelast means one who never laughs (especially at jokes); a mirthless person.
- What is agelast in Tamil?
- Agelast in Tamil is சிடுமூஞ்சி. See Agelast meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use agelast in a sentence?
- For Kundera, agelasts represent the opposite of the spirit of the novel; the novel is born from the sense of humor and not from theoretical thinking.
- What part of speech is agelast?
- Agelast is a noun.
- How do you pronounce agelast?
- Agelast is pronounced /ˈæd͡ʒəˌlæst/.
- What is the plural of agelast?
- The plural of agelast is agelasts.
Words near agelast in the dictionary
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