humourless


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Adj.1.humourless - lacking humorhumourless - lacking humor; "it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"- Truman Capote
humorless, unhumorous
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humourless

adjective serious, intense, solemn, straight, dry, dour, unfunny, po-faced, unsmiling, heavy-going, unamused, unamusing He was a straight-faced, humourless character.
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humourless

humorless (US) [ˈhjuːməlɪs] ADJ [person] → arisco; [joke] → sin gracia
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humourless

[ˈhjuːmərləs] humorless (US) adj (= solemn) [person] → dépourvu(e) d'humour
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humourless

, (US) humorless
adj → humorlos, ohne jeden Humor; speech, laugh, book etc also → trocken
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humourless

humorless (Am) [ˈhjuːməlɪs] adj → privo/a di umorismo
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