humourless

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A form of humorless — Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.

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Meanings

adjectivehumourless (comparative more humourless, superlative most humourless)

comparative more humourless · superlative most humourless

  1. CanadaUKalternativeAlternative spelling of humorless.
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    Every guest is appalled and fantastically humourless about the experience, even at this distance. You cannot help but wonder at cultural divides and how differently the British might have approached – or at least recalled – such events, at least in the early days. For us, surely, it would be a story for the ages. You could dine out on it for ever, so to speak.

    2025 June 24, Lucy Mangan, “Poop Cruise review – a fascinating look at a toilet disaster that still haunts passengers 12 years later”, in The Guardian

Synonyms & antonyms

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Englishhumour
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  4. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  5. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  6. Englishhumourless

From humour + -less.

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APA

humourless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humourless

MLA

“humourless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humourless. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “humourless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humourless.

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