Antonyms for unamusing

Grammar : Adj

Spell : uh-myoo-zing

Phonetic Transcription : əˈmyu zɪŋ

Definition of unamusing

Origin : c.1600, "cheating;" present participle adjective from amuse (v.). Sense of "interesting" is from 1712; that of "pleasantly entertaining, tickling to the fancy" is from 1826. Noted late 1920s as a vogue word. Amusive has been tried in all senses since 18c. and might be useful, but it never caught on. Related: Amusingly.

As in serious : adj crucial, weighty

Example sentences :

Oh, just some vague, cautious slosh, not unamusing in its way—it'll get there all right.
Extract from : « The Limit » by Ada Leverson

You have no society there, and here you have some—unamusing and tedious though it may be.
Extract from : « The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 » by George W. M. Reynolds

But though Fanny might forgive, she must have found it unamusing to forget.
Extract from : « Memoirs of a Midget » by Walter de la Mare

A microscopic, but not unamusing, social life was in full swing.
Extract from : « Caught by the Turks » by Francis Yeats-Brown

A commercial courtship, as you express it, is not unamusing.
Extract from : « Ghetto Tragedies » by Israel Zangwill

But if the controversy be unamusing, it shall, at least as far as I can render it so, be brief.
Extract from : « The Highlands of Ethiopia » by William Cornwallis Harris

The song began—a long and unamusing ditty, topical in its points.
Extract from : « Max » by Katherine Cecil Thurston

It would be no unamusing task for an antiquary with human instincts to dig and delve until he had re-peopled every residence.
Extract from : « Adventures and Enthusiasms » by E. V. Lucas

And here was Wickwire himself, condemned to the dreariest fate ever devised by unamusing devils.
Extract from : « Where the Pavement Ends » by John Russell

It is not unamusing, but scarcely first-class, the two political skits at the end being about the best part of it.
Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 » by George Saintsbury

Synonyms for unamusing

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