Unfun

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Lack or absence of fun; funlessness. uncountable

    "I love going to the theater but the third week of February was putting a major damper on the experience. First it was Big Deal — a dismal evening of overblown un-fun — then Glengarry Glen Ross in which a lot of straight men talked dirty and made real estate deals."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not fun.

    "Poor Holly had the massive misfortune of having an assistant principal for a mother, which, Alexa knew, made her life unfun both in and out of school."

Synonyms

All synonyms
funlessnessfunlessness

Example

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"Poor Holly had the massive misfortune of having an assistant principal for a mother, which, Alexa knew, made her life unfun both in and out of school."

Etymology

From un- + fun.

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