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Definition of Humorless
1. Adjective. Lacking humor. "It was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"
Definition of Humorless
1. a. Destitute of humor.
Definition of Humorless
1. Adjective. Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Humorless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humorless
Literary usage of Humorless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"What's a generation? " " It's a ray in the illumination of the spirit." "
That's foolish." He was a serious and literal person, and rather humorless. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"But it is a mind saturated with sentimentality, a humorless, arrogant unimaginative
mind. Ludendorff has today no inkling of why the war was lost or why ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1901)
"The Christians, he says, pity the Greeks, but their religion as humorless,
fanatical and "soul-saving," is inferior in symmetry, naturalness and breadth. ..."
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