Mr. Tom Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Use of unfunny

Hi

I saw the word unfunny in an article book by a British author. I didn't know that this word is so common among native speakers.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=unfunny&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cunfunny%3B%2Cc0

Could you please tell me if unfunny would sound OK in everyday conversation? What about formal English?

Thanks,

Tom
  

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Mr. Tom I saw the word unfunny in an article book by a British author. I didn't know that this word is so common among native speakers.

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Mr. TomI saw the word unfunny in an article book by a British author. I didn't know that this word is so common among native speakers.https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=unfunny&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smo