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English
Etymology
From anti- + thalian.
Pronunciation
Adjective
antithalian (comparative more antithalian, superlative most 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, page 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.