humorless
Adjective
- lacking humor; - Truman Capote
- "it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"
Adj
- Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.
Examples
- He watched the little dog's antics with a humorless stare.
Origin / Etymology
From humor + -less.
Synonyms
humourless, unhumorous, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, funny as a dose of the clap, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, grim, harsh, humorless, irrisible, jokeless, joyless, lack-laughter, laughless, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, nonhumorous, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unfunny, unhappy, unhilarious, unhysterical, unjocose, unjocular, unlaughable, unmerry, unmirthful, wintry, woeful
Scrabble Score: 14
humorless: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhumorless: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
humorless: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary