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Definition: Humorless |
HumorlessAdjective1. Lacking humor; "it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"- Truman Capote. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: HumorlessSynonym: unhumorous (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: humorous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Humorless |
| English words defined with "humorless": earnest ♦ humorlessly, humourlessly ♦ in earnest ♦ sincere, solemn ♦ unhumorous ♦ without humor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "humorless": rarebit ♦ tunafish. (references) |
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Screenplays | In short, she is unprincipled, relentless, and exacting; idle, unproductive, and tedious; unimaginative, humorless, and vain; vindictive, undignified, and weak. (The Divorce of Lady X; writing credit: Gilbert Wakefield; Lajos Bir) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau a la financiere is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Humorless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Humorless" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "humorless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | humorlos (dry, humorlessly, humourless, humourlessly), trocken (arid, barren, bookish, dead pan, drily, dry, dry-cell, dryly, dusty, humorlessly, humourless, humourlessly, jejune, stale, uninspiring, wry), ohne jeden humor (humorlessly, humourless, humourlessly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | privo di senso d'umorismo (humourless), che manca dell'umorismo (humourless). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | umorlesshay keyifsiz (ailing, blue, cheerless, dejected, dispirited, doleful, down, humourless, in the doldrums, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of humor, out of humour, out of sorts, poor spirited, poorly, queer, seedy, sick, under the weather, unwell), espri anlayışı olmayan (humourless), şakadan anlamayan (humourless). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "humorless": humorlessly, humorlessness, humorlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Humorless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Humoriensis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "humorless" (pronounced hyuw"merlus) |
| 4 | -er l u s | colorless, driverless, fatherless, featherless, featureless, leaderless, motherless, odorless, paperless, powerless, rudderless, tireless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fearless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-m-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: housels, housers, morsels, moshers, mousers, mushers. | |
-3 letters: homers, horses, hosels, housel, houser, houses, humors, lemurs, lessor, losers, louses, lusher, lushes, mohels, mohurs, morels, morsel, mosher, moshes, mosser, mouser, mouses, mousse, musers, musher, mushes, mussel, oleums, ousels, rhesus, rheums, rhuses, rouses, rushes, serous, serums, sheols, shmoes, shoers, shores, shorls, soleus, solums, sorels, ushers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-m-o-r-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: humorlessly. | |
+4 letters: humorlessness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 75 6D 6F 72 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... ..- -- --- .-. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01110101 01101101 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H u m o r l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0075 006D 006F 0072 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)428779818478718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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