单词 | humorless |
释义 | humorless (once / 24522 pages) adj WORD FAMILY humorless: humorlessly+/humor: humoral, humored, humoring, humorist, humorless, humorous, humors/humored: ill-humored/humorist: humorists/humorous: humorously, humorousness, unhumorous/unhumorous: unhumorously USAGE EXAMPLESFans of the game may enjoy the movie, but otherwise, it’s a confusing, humorless, boring mess. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) Occasionally his scorn is well-placed—he correctly pegs many New Atheist diatribes as humorless—but elsewhere he wastes time shooting at small targets. Slate(Dec 05, 2016) The woman seated next to Aunty Ifeoma had piercing academic eyes and humorless lips and wore no makeup. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) adj lacking humor it was a humorless wink Syn|Ant humourless, unhumorous sobersided completely lacking in humor or lightness of touch po-facedhumorless and disapproving unfunnynot funny; especially failing to achieve the intended humor humorous, humourous full of or characterized by humor bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheekcleverly amusing in tone buffoonish, clownish, clownlike, zanylike a clown amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risiblearousing or provoking laughter drollcomical in an odd or whimsical manner dry, ironic, ironical, wryhumorously sarcastic or mocking farcical, ludicrous, ridiculousbroadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce Gilbertianwildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas hilarious, screaming, uproariousmarked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter jesting, jocose, jocular, jokingcharacterized by jokes and good humor killing, sidesplittingvery funny seriocomic, seriocomicalmixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating slapstickcharacterized by horseplay and physical action tragicomic, tragicomicalhaving pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics waggishwitty or joking wittycombining clever conception and facetious expression pleasinggiving pleasure and satisfaction |
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