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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 Words From

  • ag·e·las·tic [aj-, uh, -, las, -tik], adjective noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of agelast1

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

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