Thesaurus:humorless

Thesaurus

humorless

English

Adjective

Sense: lacking humor or levity

Synonyms

• funny as a dose of the clap
• jokeless
• humorless
• irrisible (archaic)
• laughless
• mirthless
• nonhumorous
• unhilarious
• unhumorous
• unhysterical
• unjocose
• unjocular (rare)
• unlaughable
• unmirthful

Antonyms

• amused
• funny    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

Not expressing humor, laughter or levity:

• agelastic
• jokeproof (rare)
• unamused

Not arousing humor, laughter or levity:

• nonfunny
• unamusing
• uncomic
• uncomical
• unfunny
• unwitty

Hypernyms

• cheerless    [⇒ thesaurus]
• lacking    [⇒ thesaurus]
• serious    [⇒ thesaurus]
• stern    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• lack-laughter (obsolete)
• misogelastic (literary, rare)

See also

• Thesaurus:boring
• Thesaurus:sad

Further reading

• “843. dullness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “humorless” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.