Home › Words › N › nonjokenonjokenonjoke means A story, utterance, etc. that is not a joke.EtymologyFrom non- + joke.nounA story, utterance, etc. that is not a joke.e.g.“And if the computer did produce a joke, it could not separate it from the nonjokes.” — 1982, Wallace I. Matson, Sentience:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.unjoking 75% match — Not joking. vs nonjoke →unjesting 65% match — Not jesting. vs nonjoke →nonstory 64% match — Something that is considered to be not a real story, or not newsworthy vs nonjoke →unjocose 61% match — Not jocose. vs nonjoke →nonserious 59% match — Not serious. vs nonjoke →antijoke 59% match — A sentence or story that subverts the expectation of a joke, often by being deliberately unfunny or surreal. vs nonjoke →nonjuggling 57% match — Not relating to juggling. vs nonjoke →nonfunny 57% match — Not funny. vs nonjoke →