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humourless
adjective /ˈhjuː.mə.ləs/
/-mɚ-/ UK (US humorless)Definition
› having no humourLacking humour
(Definition of humourless adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- beyond a joke idiom
- earnest adjective
- intense adjective
- lightly adverb (NOT SERIOUSLY)
- mirthless adjective
- po-faced adjective
- poker-faced adjective
- saturnine adjective
- serious adjective (NOT JOKING)
- seriously adverb (NOT JOKING)
- seriousness noun (NOT JOKING)
- sober adjective (SERIOUS)
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