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Definition of Humourless
1. Adjective. Lacking humor. "It was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"
Definition of Humourless
1. Adjective. (British spelling Canadian) (alternative spelling of humorless) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humourless
Literary usage of Humourless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"So good-tempered, humourless a young fellow as you shall vind in a day's march.
... Much the same as humourless. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... of his contemporaries between whom and himself there were but few points in
common, the " humourless " William Morris and the " humourless " Rossetti. ..."
3. Poets of the Younger Generation by William Archer (1902)
"... wit to spiritual subjects he denotes himself a true descendant of Crashaw and
Herbert. I do not employ the word " humourless " in a reproachful sense, ..."
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