humourless

humourless
humour (US humor) ► NOUN 1) the quality of being amusing or comic. 2) a state of mind: her good humour vanished. 3) (also cardinal humour) 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 humour — Cf. ↑out of humour
DERIVATIVES humourless adjective.
ORIGIN originally in the sense «bodily fluid», surviving in aqueous humour and vitreous humour: from Latin humor 'moisture' .

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