English Explanatory Dictionary

humorless

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.

Word forms

humorless more humorless most humorless humourless

Etymology

From humor + -less.

Synonyms

harsh jokeless mirthless unfunny cheerless comfortless bleak dark morose depressing desolate dire disconsolate dismal doleful dolesome drear drearisome dreary dreich forlorn gayless gray gloomsome gloomy grim joyless lack-laughter lugubrious melancholy miserable no joke saturnine solemn somber sombre spiritless sullen sunless uncheerful uncheery unhappy unmerry wintry woeful funny as a dose of the clap humorless irrisible laughless nonhumorous unhilarious unhumorous unhysterical unjocose unjocular unlaughable unmirthful

Antonyms

amused funny

Related words

lack-laughter misogelastic boring sad

Derived words

humorlessly humorlessness

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