inhumorousadj.
/ɪnˈhjuːmərəs/ Not humorous; lacking in humour.
ΚΠ
1926 W. J. Locke Old Bridge ii. vi. 78 ‘Life is real and life is earnest’—but so is the drivelling existence of the inhumorous ant.
Derivatives
inˈhumorously adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in unwitty or inhumorous manner
unwittily1661
inhumorously1898
unfunnily1963
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [adverb]
highlyOE
deeplyc1300
solemnlya1325
sadlya1375
soberly1382
demurelyc1400
sadc1400
seriouslyc1425
solemnya1470
murely1474
solemnedlyc1480
solenny1480
in (good, sober, serious) sadness1545
gravely1553
staidly1571
solemniouslya1578
solidly1632
in sad earnest1637
ponderously1637
in jest-earnest1642
in all seriousness1679
joking apart1745
unhumorously1768
solidly1799
in sober earnest1836
mirthlessly1853
votively1857
smilelessly1869
unmirthfully1872
unsmilingly1879
inhumorously1898
soberingly1923
straightfacedly1977
1898 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 194 Burne Jones was sincere in his art, not fanatically or inhumourously, but quietly and subtly.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 138/1 Many Englishmen..allow themselves to be convinced by hearsay that Scotsmen are inhumorously inclined.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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