agelast

1. (rare) One who never laughs (especially at jokes); a mirthless person.Examples: "As a real agelast in a comedy, he is beaten. The beating of an agelast is the most important point of the comedy."; "Declaring with Doumergue that "Rabelais and Calvin (and Olivétan) were the creators of French literary prose,"²⁵ Bakhtin adds "Even the agelast Calvin wrote a pamphlet about relics with a certain comic overtone."²⁶ The single, and unusual word "agelast" summarizes the popular view of John Calvin: a person who does not laugh or smile; someone who cannot enjoy life or the fact that others might be happy."; "For Kundera, agelasts represent the opposite of the spirit of the novel; the novel is born from the sense of humor and not from theoretical thinking."Antonyms: gelast, laugher, cachinnator, hypergelast