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gelast

gelast noun: one who tends to laugh; a laugher.

Noun

gelast (plural gelasts)

  1. (literary, rare) One who tends to laugh; a laugher.
    • Even if we grant that the "gelasts" are getting reduced to the dimensions of a petty sect, the consideration need not deter us from choosing laughter as our theme.1902, James Sully, An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development and Its Value, London; […]: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 2
    • The phenomena presented by the misogelast, or laughter-hater; the agelast, or non-laugher; the gelast, who is the laugher himself, and the hypergelast, who is the laugher gone intemperate, are looked into, and as far as possible accounted for, by Dr. Sully.1903 March, “Views and Reviews”, in The Catholic World, volume LXXVI, number 456, New York, N.Y.: The Paulist Fathers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 839
    Antonyms:
    agelast, nonlaugher

Examples of gelast in a sentence

  • So it might well be the other way round; not the agelast or misolgeast is "somewhat insensitive" to the ways of his fellows but the gelast or hypergelast.1980 Fall, Gert Raeithel, “American Humor as an Experience of Growth”, in American Humor: An Interdisciplinary Newsletter, number 2...
  • A personality profjle of the gelast or agelast has not so far been convincingly established, nor has a pattern of humor been consistently demonstrated in individuals with different personality types.1988, Robin Andrew Haig, “Personal Attributes and Humor”, in The Anatomy of Humor: Biopsychosocial and Therapeutic Perspectives...

Antonyms of gelast

Forms of gelast

pluralgelasts

Origin of gelast

From Ancient Greek γελαστής (gelastḗs, “laugher”).

Questions about gelast

What does gelast mean?
Gelast means one who tends to laugh; a laugher.
How do you use gelast in a sentence?
So it might well be the other way round; not the agelast or misolgeast is "somewhat insensitive" to the ways of his fellows but the gelast or hypergelast.
What part of speech is gelast?
Gelast is a noun.
What is the plural of gelast?
The plural of gelast is gelasts.

Words near gelast in the dictionary

  1. Gelasian diarchy
  2. Gelasian dualism
  3. Gelasian dyarchy
  4. Gelasius
  5. gelasma
  6. gelast
  7. gelastic
  8. gelastocorid
  9. gelastocorids
  10. gelasts
  11. gelate

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