Word-built World: antithalian

American Gothic, 1930 Art: Grant Wood

A.Word.A.Daywith Anu Garg

antithalian

PRONUNCIATION:

(an-tee-THAY-lee-uhn) 

MEANING:

adjective: Opposed to fun, festivity, or joy.

ETYMOLOGY:

From anti- (against) + Thalia, the muse of pastoral and comic poetry. Earliest documented use: 1818.

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