Uncelebration
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A memorial of something bad.
"Discussing Men at Arms, the first volume of his later war trilogy, Waugh explained that it "was a kind of uncelebration, a history of Guy Crouchback's disillusion with the army."
- 2 A celebration that lacks any celebratory feeling or actions.
"In contrast to all the whooppee that surrounded the Corvette's Silver Anniversary the observation of its 10th year of existence in 1962 had all the trappings of an uncelebration."
Example
More examples"Discussing Men at Arms, the first volume of his later war trilogy, Waugh explained that it "was a kind of uncelebration, a history of Guy Crouchback's disillusion with the army."
Etymology
From un- + celebration.
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