Synonyms of unfunny

unfunny

adjective

as in humorless

Synonyms & Similar Words

• humorless
• lame
• unamusing
• sombre
• earnest
• serious
• tragic
• unhumorous
• unsmiling
• somber
• tragical
• uncomic
• staid
• solemn
• unhysterical
• sedate
• poignant
• moving
• severe
• grave
• no-nonsense
• sobersided
• touching
• affecting
• sad
• sober
• weighty
• sorrowful
• lachrymose
• tearful
• woeful
• mournful

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• funny
• comic
• ridiculous
• hilarious
• humorous
• comical
• hysterical
• ludicrous
• comedic
• farcical
• laughable
• amusing
• riotous
• droll
• uproarious
• hysteric
• risible
• antic
• entertaining
• killing
• screaming
• humoristic
• sidesplitting
• chucklesome
• slapstick
• zany
• diverting
• clownish
• slapsticky
• knockabout

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of unfunny

But from a pure comedy standpoint, the joke was just basic—and unfunny. —Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025

Ahead of the show’s second season, BuzzFeed ran a delicious tell-all in which the first season’s many failures (like inconsistent plotting and unfunny jokes) were explained. —Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025

Labored and unfunny, that film, from 2016, sounded like a cinematic death rattle rather than peals of joyous wedding bells. —Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025

Until the plane lands in Uganda, the show is still hilarious, but the sequences in Africa are grimly unfunny, especially as black actors are forced to sell jokes about curing AIDS by sodomizing babies. —Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025