antithalian

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/æn.tɪˈθeɪ.li.ən/

adjective

Opposed to fun or festivity.

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Meanings

adjectiveantithalian (comparative more antithalian, superlative most antithalian)

comparative more antithalian · superlative most antithalian

  1. formalOpposed to fun or festivity.

    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
    1 more example

    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

Origin

From anti- + thalian.

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APA

antithalian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antithalian

MLA

“antithalian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antithalian. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antithalian,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antithalian.

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