antithalian
adj/æn.tɪˈθeɪ.li.ən/
Etymology From anti- + thalian.
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Formal Opposed 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:
- 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: