humorless

humorless
humor (Brit. humour) NOUN 1) the quality of being amusing or comic. 2) a state of mind: her good humor vanished. 3) (also cardinal humor) historical each of four fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), formerly believed to determine a person's physical and mental qualities.
VERB comply with the wishes or whims of.
out of humor — Cf. ↑out of humor
DERIVATIVES humorless adjective.
ORIGIN originally in the sense «bodily fluid», surviving in aqueous humor and vitreous humor: from Latin humor 'moisture' .

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  • humorless — hu·mor·less …   English syllables

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