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
- 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
- arduous
- dangerous
- deep
- difficult
- far-reaching
- fateful
- fell
- formidable
- grave
- grievous
- grim
- hard
- heavy
- important
- laborious
- major
- meaning business
- meaningful
- menacing
- momentous
- no joke
- no laughing matter
- of consequence
- operose
- out for blood
- playing hard ball
- pressing
- severe
- significant
- smoking
- sobering
- strenuous
- strictly business
- threatening
- tough
- ugly
- unamusing
- unhumorous
- urgent
- worrying
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