Definition of "humorless" []

• Lacking a sense of humor. (adjective)
• Said or done without humor: "She winked at me, but it was humorless; a wink of warning” ( Truman Capote). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Paches grinned, again humorless, and Phrynus felt the insult."
• "First, I will grant your point that there is a certain humorless quality on the SMA forum."
• "An idle thought: must all literary interviewers be so intense perhaps the word humorless applies about literature?"