gelast

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek γελαστής (gelastḗs, laugher).

Noun

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gelast (plural gelasts)

  1. (literary, rare) One who tends to laugh; a laugher.
    Antonyms: agelast, nonlaugher
    • 1902, James Sully, An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development and Its Value, London,  []: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 2:
      Even if we grant that the "gelasts" are getting reduced to the dimensions of a petty sect, the consideration need not deter us from choosing laughter as our theme.
    • 1903 March, “Views and Reviews”, in The Catholic World, volume LXXVI, number 456, New York, N.Y.: The Paulist Fathers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 839:
      The phenomena presented by the misogelast, or laughter-hater; the agelast, or non-laugher; the gelast, who is the laugher himself, and the hypergelast, who is the laugher gone intemperate, are looked into, and as far as possible accounted for, by Dr. Sully.
    • 1980 Fall, Gert Raeithel, “American Humor as an Experience of Growth”, in American Humor: An Interdisciplinary Newsletter, number 2, American Humor Studies Association, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 4:
      So it might well be the other way round; not the agelast or misolgeast is "somewhat insensitive" to the ways of his fellows but the gelast or hypergelast.
    • 1988, Robin Andrew Haig, “Personal Attributes and Humor”, in The Anatomy of Humor: Biopsychosocial and Therapeutic Perspectives, Springfield, I.L.: Charles C Thomas, →ISBN, page 79:
      A personality profjle of the gelast or agelast has not so far been convincingly established, nor has a pattern of humor been consistently demonstrated in individuals with different personality types.
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Pronunciation

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Participle

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gelast

  1. past participle of gelasten
  2. past participle of lassen

Declension

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Declension of gelast
uninflected gelast
inflected gelaste
positive
predicative/adverbial gelast
indefinite m./f. sing. gelaste
n. sing. gelast
plural gelaste
definite gelaste
partitive gelasts