nonfunny

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English

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Etymology

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From non- +‎ funny.

Adjective

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nonfunny (comparative more nonfunny, superlative most nonfunny)

  1. Not funny.
    Synonym: unfunny
    • 1985, Gaeddert, LouAnn Bigge, Schwark, Mary Beth, Your former friend, Matthew, Toronto, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49:
      She laughed. A bitter, nonfunny laugh.
    • 2002 November 15, Sorchas Lassair, “PCOS”, in soc.support.fat-acceptance.moderated[1] (Usenet):
      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.
    • 2015 October 28, Brook Ziporyn, Being and Ambiguity: Philosophical Experiments with Tiantai Buddhism, Open Court, →ISBN, page 198:
      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.