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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Devoid of gladness and gaiety.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Without mirth or hilarity; joyless.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Lacking mirth; devoid of joy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Without mirth.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. lacking mirth

Etymologies

  1. From mirth + -less. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Fenn laughed what novelists are fond of calling a mirthless laugh.”

    The Head of Kay's

  • “Frank Rich of the New York Times called the comedian's performance "mirthless

    The Huffington Post: Jerry Weissman: Obama and Comedy

  • “It was not boisterous; indeed, it was consciously refined, -- mirthless, meaningless.”

    Youth and the Bright Medusa

  • “Often, during the last few days, he had told himself, with a kind of mirthless chuckle, that _he_ was not going to be”

    From out the Vasty Deep

  • “(Christian Slater, John Cleese, Steve Buscemi, Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall), but this time around the script and animation have resulted in a "mirthless," "underimagined" and "strenuously unfunny" movie, according to Variety.”

    Taipei Times

  • “With all the clouds on the horizon, I’m guessing things are kind of mirthless at the old West Wing.”

    Think Progress » 29%

  • “Snettishane met the suggestion with a mirthless face, behind the mask of which his soul grinned wide.”

    THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT

  • “There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness — a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx,”

    The Trail of Meat

  • “She gives the clerk a nod and a mirthless smile and finally makes her way toward the anniversary cards.”

    Fictionaut: Blank Inside

  • “Ad homs, linked to hackneyed cliches, would be comical were it not for the mirthless minds which produce them.”

    Berlinski stirring the pot

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