humorless
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- adjective
- /ˈhjuːmərləs/
- US
:
falto de sentido del humor
- My boss is a bit humorless, so we have to be careful about cracking jokes around him.
I find Democrats that I meet in the wild, just like different places, humorless.
- I find Democrats that I meet in the wild, just like different places, humorless.
- And as we've established, they are foul mouthed, humorless.
- So do do we want a humorless society that is simply rife with condemnation and hate, basically.
Examples
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The reputation of all three was that they were humorless, tough, and well-paid.
Fiction book (1994) -
That's not to say the film is humorless or lacking in punch; quite the opposite, actually.
Blog text (23) -
Could you possibly be any more humorless about this?
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I am not a humorless man.
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The Agency is, I'm afraid to say, completely humorless about these issues.
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Actually, I'm more of the humorless type.
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Jennifer, tall and humorless, didn't say a word to me as she passed.
Fiction book (1990) -
She's become a statue, her face frozen, the most humorless, most expressionless person on the planet.
Fiction book (2002) -
He's humorless, introverted, unresponsive.
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He always tells the same jokes, but his humorless attitude makes them fall flat.
Synonyms
Not liking jokes or laughing at them
Antonyms
How Humorous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Humorless comes from humor, which long ago meant a body's 'mood' or 'liquid', and the ending -less means 'without'. So, humorless literally means 'without humor' and today describes someone who has no sense of fun or does not laugh at jokes.