humorless
adjEtymology From humor + -less.
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US Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.
- He watched the little dog's antics with a humorless stare.
- At the risk of seeming humorless, we would like to point out some problems with the "bisexuality" insurance cartoon which appeared in the April Fool's issue of GCN.1983 April 23, The BiVocals, “Gay-Identified Bisexuals”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
- Synonyms
- funny as a dose of the clap, jokeless, humorless, irrisible, laughless, mirthless, nonhumorous, unhilarious, unhumorous, unhysterical, unjocose, unjocular, unlaughable, unmirthful
- Derived terms
- humorlessly, humorlessness
- Related terms
- lack-laughter, misogelastic, boring, sad