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What (who) is humourless - definition

humourless

Note: in AM, use 'humorless'

If you accuse someone of being humourless, you mean that they are very serious about everything and do not find things amusing.

He was a straight-faced, humourless character.

= solemn

ADJ [disapproval]

humour

TENDENCY OF SOMEONE TO POINT OUT AND EMPHASIZE THE COMICAL NATURE OF SOMETHING (OR THE MENTAL STATE THAT LEADS TO THIS TENDENCY)

Funny; Humorous; Sense of humor; Sense of humour; Hilarious; Sense of Humour; Humor studies; Humor (funny); Comedy technique; Humor; Humourous; Hilariously; Nerd humour; Hilarity; Facetiousness; Facetiously; Humoristic; Funniness; Hillarious; Humor study; Humour sense; Funni

see humor

humour

TENDENCY OF SOMEONE TO POINT OUT AND EMPHASIZE THE COMICAL NATURE OF SOMETHING (OR THE MENTAL STATE THAT LEADS TO THIS TENDENCY)

Funny; Humorous; Sense of humor; Sense of humour; Hilarious; Sense of Humour; Humor studies; Humor (funny); Comedy technique; Humor; Humourous; Hilariously; Nerd humour; Hilarity; Facetiousness; Facetiously; Humoristic; Funniness; Hillarious; Humor study; Humour sense; Funni

(US humor)

¦ noun

1. the quality of being amusing, especially as expressed in literature or speech.

the ability to appreciate or express humour.

2. a state of mind: her good humour vanished.

archaic an inclination or whim.

3. (also cardinal humour) historical each of four fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), formerly thought to determine a person's physical and mental qualities.

¦ verb comply with the wishes or whims of.

Phrases

out of humour in a bad mood.

Derivatives

humourless adjective

humourlessly adverb

humourlessness noun

Word History

The word humour entered English from Old French in the 14th century. Ultimately it comes from Latin humor 'moisture', from humere 'be moist' (humid is from the same root). The original sense in English was 'bodily fluid', surviving today in the medical terms aqueous humour and vitreous humour, fluids present in the eyeball. In the Middle Ages it was believed that the relative proportions of the four bodily fluids known as the cardinal humours, namely blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy, affected a person's general physical and mental health. This idea led, in the 16th century, to the use of humour in the senses 'mood' and 'whim', with the current primary sense becoming established by the end of that century.

Examples of use of humourless

1. Why would marketers consider this humourless man a good catch?

2. He also created the humourless, interfering oaf Prodnose.

3. Bring back the instinct for old–fashioned, humourless, relentless, boring probity.

4. Still, it‘s in its fledgling stages, this new, humourless bond of duty.

5. "If they are so humourless they deserve to be made fun of," he says.