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AGELAST
Definition of AGELAST
noun
One who never laughs (especially at jokes); a mirthless person.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Another sense
AGELAST carries a second meaning.
noun
One who never laughs.
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγέλαστος (agélastos, “not laughing”), from γελάω (geláō, “to laugh”). Attributed to a French coinage by François Rabelais (ca.1483–1494—1553).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- Ancient Greek
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,052)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
AGELAST in a sentence
“One minute you're learning that Sir Issac Newton chuckled only once in his life (scoffing at Euclidean geometry) and that the term for such people who don't laugh is 'agelast'; the next that the apparently nonsensical elephant jokes that were popular in the Sixties are believed to be racist in origin; the next how Bertrand Russell put down a heckler during one of his lectures on logic.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AGELAST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 65 boards so far. 160 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
AGELAST starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AAEGLST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found AGELAST?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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