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unfunny

adj

Etymology

From un- + funny.

  1. derived from *peymen-✻
  2. derived from *faimnijǭ✻
  3. derived from *faimnijā✻
  4. derived from fonna
  5. derived from fáni — “vain person, swaggerer”
  6. derived from fonne — “a fool, dupe”
  7. inherited from fonne
  8. suffixed as funny — “fun + y”
  9. formed as unfunny — “un- + funny”

Definitions

  1. Not funny

    • Edward told an unfunny knock-knock joke that made his brother groan.
    • The decline of mobility, reason fading in and out like short-wave radio, the trickle of minor ailments that fed a deeper river—the subject was vast and not all of it was unfunny.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unfunny. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA