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What is the adjective for humourlessness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs humor, humorise, humorize, humour, humourise and humourize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

humorous
  1. Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
  2. Showing humor; witty, jocular.
  3. (obsolete) Damp or watery.
  4. (obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “In a dryly humorous touch, the woman's firmly placed heels seem more than adequate substitutes for the chair's missing front legs.”
      “He was much more approachable with his cool, aloof expression replaced by a mild, slightly humorous smirk.”
      “His charisma often focuses attention on himself, even when he is introducing a musician to the public in a humorous or warm way.”
humorless
  1. Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “O'Riordan is credited with introducing a certain ribaldry to the notoriously humorless world of women's magazines.”
      “We were in a decidedly humorless mood after hearing the depressing news.”
      “His mission in life seemed to be gaining weight and telling gross, humorless jokes.”
humored
  1. (good) Having a particular disposition or mood. See good humor, bad humor, ill humor.
humoursome
  1. (archaic) Liable to humours or moods; fickle; ill-tempered.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Mr. McLean, as stout and humoursome as of yore, had solemnly promised his wife to be jocular but not too jocular.”
      “A sublime utterance, full of humoursome matter, if it had been a time for humours.”
      “Peter was, on the other hand, a most humoursome varlet and excellent company on a wet day.”
humoristic
  1. Pertaining to a humorist or his or her style.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The pure and touching morality of Thouar conflicted with the humoristic and cynical freedom of Montazio.”
      “Diabolic LoungeĀ® is, in short, a graphic novelĀ  with a humoristic background based on good, evil and the seven deadly sins.”
      “Self-taught, I first expressed myself through humoristic drawings with a mix of black humor and surrealism.”
humoral
  1. Of or relating to the body fluids or humours.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Thus, defects in either cell type have the potential to affect both cellular and humoral immunity to varying degrees.”
      “The body uses humoral and cellular immune responses to reject a transplanted graft.”
      “As people age, their cellular and humoral immunity generally diminish and T cell activity and immunoglobulins decrease.”
humouristic
  1. Alternative spelling of humoristic
humorful
humourful
humourless
  1. (British spelling, Canada) Alternative spelling of humorless
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “O'Riordan is credited with introducing a certain ribaldry to the notoriously humourless world of women's magazines.”
      “We were in a decidedly humourless mood after hearing the depressing news.”
      “His mission in life seemed to be gaining weight and telling gross, humourless jokes.”
humorsome
  1. Alternative form of humoursome
humoured
  1. (good) Having a particular disposition or mood.
humourous
  1. (chiefly Britain, uncommon, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of humorous
  2. Examples:
    1. “What starts out as a humourous battle between cantankerousness and impatience grows into a touching story about friendship, honesty and caring.”
      “But the city's protesters are proving both resolute and humourous in their opposition to the government.”
      “I can describe myself as sincere, sociable, optimist, sweet, family solidarity and humourous.”
humoural
  1. Alternative form of humoral
humoring
humorised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of humorise
humorising
  1. present participle of humorise
humorized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of humorize
humorizing
  1. present participle of humorize
humouring
humourised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of humourise
humourising
  1. present participle of humourise
humourized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of humourize
humourizing
  1. present participle of humourize
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