unamused

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/ʌnəˈmjuːzd/

adjective

Not amused; thus often offended or put off.

“I cracked a joke, but she was unamused.”

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjectiveunamused (comparative more unamused, superlative most unamused)

comparative more unamused · superlative most unamused

  1. Not amused; thus often offended or put off.

    I cracked a joke, but she was unamused.

    1 more example

    Claire, however, sat looking profoundly unamused by her family’s spirited, italicized conversations.

    1991, Douglas Coupland, “It Can't Last”, in Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 34

    Synonyms: jokeproof, off-putting, funny as a dose of the clap, jokeless, humorless, irrisible, laughless, mirthless

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  9. Proto-Italic*ad
  10. Proto-Italic*ad-
  11. Latinad-
  12. Old Frencha-
  13. Medieval Latinmusumder.?
  14. Old Frenchmuser
  15. Old Frenchamuser
  16. Middle English*amusen
  17. Englishamuse
  18. Englishamused
  19. Englishunamused

From un- + amused.

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