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agelast

[aj-uh-last]

noun

Literary.

  1. a person who never laughs; a humorless person (often used attributively).

    His sharpest critical barbs were reserved for the arid abstractions of the agelasts, the humorless and pedantic scholars.

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • agelastic adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of agelast1

First recorded in 1875–80; from Middle French agelasate, from éٴDz “not laughing,” from a- a- 6 ( def. ) + ó “laughable” (from geláein, gelân “to laugh”)

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