单词 | funless |
释义 | funlessadj. Lacking in fun; characterized by an absence of humour, pleasure, entertainment, etc. ΚΠ 1828 Morning Jrnl. 15 Oct. What a contrast does this one figure , funless and humourless, present to the laughable crowds of Gillray. 1882 M. J. Lamb Snow & Sunshine 91 His performance was as point-less as fun-less. 1911 Kindergarten Rev. Mar. 451/1 The impossible excess of..silliness to which the funless ‘funny picture’ has been carried lately. 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 Sept. d1 The real villain..is the idea that kids in classrooms should be forced to do anything so funless as study. 2009 Church Times 24 July 19/1 Hypocritical, sexless, funless, bloodthirsty, intolerant, dogmatic—and those are some of the more polite terms that have been used about him [sc. John Calvin]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1828 |
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