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Someone humourless is too serious. They do not laugh at things other people find funny, and they may not see a joke even when it is kind. It is a criticising word: you are saying this person has no sense of humour, or will not allow one. You can also call a face, a voice, or a meeting humourless when the feeling is dry and tight, with no play in it. This is the British spelling, with the u in humour. American English humorless; the meaning is the same. Though actually, people sometimes call someone humourless just because the joke was mean or the moment was wrong — so listen for whether the speaker is being fair.
沒有幽默感的、一本正經的(英式拼法;美式寫 humorless)
組成From humour + -less (without that quality).
同家族的字
- humourthe base word in British spelling
- humorlessthe same adjective in American spelling
- humourlesslythe adverb built from this word
- humorousthe opposite kind of adjective from the same base
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。