Synonyms for humorless
- adjective
- American English
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Joyless
joyless, unfunny, unsmiling, grim, cheerless, miserable, harsh, unhappy, mirthless, uncheerful, unmirthful, unhumorous US, unhumourous UK, uncheery, laughless, dreary, somber US, sombre UK, gloomy, bleak, melancholy, forlorn, wretched, disconsolate
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.
He watched the little dog's antics with a humorless stare.
Example sentences
- harsh Some people live far removed from harsh realities.
- unfunny Bill Maher is reactionary and unfunny.
- joyless Other Jewish subgroups often stereotype Ashkenazim as boring and joyless.
- unsmiling Tom's father was an unsmiling man.
By length
- 4 letters
- grim1
- 5 letters
- harsh1, bleak1
- 6 letters
- gloomy2, dreary2, somber2, sombre
- 7 letters
- unhappy3, forlorn2, unfunny, joyless
- 8 letters
- wretched2, uncheery, jokeless
- 9 letters
- miserable4, unsmiling3, cheerless, mirthless, laughless
- 10 letters
- melancholy4, uncheerful, unmirthful, unhumorous
- 11 letters
- unhumourous
- 12 letters
- disconsolate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gloomy2 = 2 syllables).