Meanings
comparative unfunnier · comparative more unfunny · superlative unfunniest · superlative most unfunny
- Not funny.
Edward told an unfunny knock-knock joke that made his brother groan.
2 more examples
But while the wackiness gets exasperating fast (a running joke about Hazel’s father, played by Ray Romano on autopilot, having a sex doll for a wife is even unfunnier than it sounds), Milioti works overtime to keep us invested.
2021 March 31, Benjamin Lee, “Made for Love review – Black Mirror-esque comedy needs an upgrade”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2021The 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.
2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 388Synonyms: nonfunny, unamusing, funny as a dose of the clap, jokeless, humorless, irrisible, laughless, mirthless
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot funny.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot funny; especially failing to achieve the intended humor
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishfun
- Englishfunny
- Englishunfunny
Translations
Dutch niet grappig
- niet grappigTranslations
Finnish ei hauska
- ei hauskaTranslations
French pas drôle
- pas drôleTranslations
German unlustig
- unlustigTranslations
Polish nieśmieszny
- nieśmiesznyTranslations
Spanish no chistoso, sin gracejo
- no chistosoTranslations
- sin gracejoTranslations
- sin graciosidadTranslations
- insulsoTranslations
- sosoTranslations
- chirleTranslations
- chiste alemánTranslations
- chiste flojoTranslations
- chiste mongoTranslations
Swedish inte rolig
- inte roligTranslations
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with unfunny
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unfunny. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfunny
“unfunny.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfunny. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unfunny,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfunny.
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