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antithalian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /æn.tɪˈθeɪ.li.ən/

Etymology

From anti- + thalian.

Meanings

1. (formal) Opposed to fun or festivity.
   • 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. 1990, Houchang E. Chehabi, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini, I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 82:
   • 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. 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey:

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