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humorless

ADJECTIVE
stuffy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
arrogant dreary genteel musty pompous self-important staid stodgy
WEAK
Victorian bloated conventional dull fusty important magisterial narrow-minded priggish prim and proper prissy prudish puffy puritanical stilted strait-laced uninteresting
Antonyms
STRONGEST
adventurous clear willing
WEAK
airy breezy current informal modern new open ventilated

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With a short season, smaller scope and much lighter tone, this could be the welcome antidote to the humorless, plodding “HotD,” and get Westeros fans excited again.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

Everyone has faced the challenge of navigating a conversation with a humorless scold.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2024

Rosendale is a self-defeating, humorless member of the House Freedom Caucus who cannot, in any form or fashion, mitigate his sharp Maryland accent.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2024

However relevant the stereotypical, silence-enforcing librarian remains in the popular imagination, Mychal Threets wants to dispel any lingering notion of the library as a dry, humorless place, lorded over by rigid pedants.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2024

They began to invent humorless, glum jokes of their own and disastrous rumors about the destruction awaiting them at Bologna.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller