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nonfunny en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + funny.

Meanings

  1. Not funny.
    • Nope - my interpretation of your comments is accurate - every post of yours that I read leaves me wondering why you are here (and why don't you ever get moderated) - you always come off as ill tempered, nitpicky, snide, sarcastic in a nonfunny way, and incredibly argumentative. 2002 November 15, Sorchas Lassair, “PCOS”, in soc.support.fat-acceptance.moderated (Usenet):
    • That is, on the setup/punch-line model, the entire joke, from beginning to end, can be described as funny, once the punch line has occurred, but equally, for asymmetrical reasons outlined above, as nonfunny. 2015 October 28, Brook Ziporyn, Being and Ambiguity: Philosophical Experiments with Tiantai Buddhism, Open Court, →ISBN, page 198:
    • She laughed. A bitter, nonfunny laugh. 1985, Gaeddert, LouAnn Bigge; Schwark, Mary Beth, Your former friend, Matthew, Toronto; New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49:

Forms

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more nonfunny Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most nonfunny Degree=Sup lexicographic

Synonyms

nonhumorous · irrisible · humorless · unamusing · unhumorous · mirthless · unhysterical · funny as a dose of the clap · unhilarious · unfunny · jokeless · unjocular · unjocose · laughless · unlaughable · unmirthful