Meaning of antithalian | Babel Free

Definitions

Opposed to fun or festivity.

formal

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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