antithalian
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /æn.tɪˈθeɪ.li.ən/
antithalian
- (formal) Opposed to fun or festivity.
- 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
- Mr Toobad described her as being […] altogether as gloomy and antithalian a young lady as Mr Glowry himself could desire for the future mistress of Nightmare Abbey.
- 1990, Houchang E. Chehabi, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini (I.B.Tauris, ISBN 1850431981 p.82 ↗:
- an ascetic component that has caused many postrevolutionary societies, whatever their ideology, to become so unspeakably antithalian after the initial period of creative euphoria is over.
- 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
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