agelast termin literacki

For example, an agelast is someone who never laughs.

An agelast could not be better pleased.

The killjoy is the spoilsport, the wet blanket, the senex iratus (angry old man) of Roman comedy, Menander's "curmudgeon," what Meredith, drawing on Greek, called the "agelast" - he who does not laugh.