funny
1attempting to amuse; facetious: Did you really mean that or were you just being funny?
warranting suspicion; deceitful; underhanded: We thought there was something funny about those extra charges.
Informal. insolent; impertinent: Don't get funny with me, young man!
Informal. a funny remark or story; a joke: to make a funny.
funnies,
Also called funny paper . the section of a newspaper reserved for comic strips, word games, etc.
Origin of funny
1synonym study For funny
Other words for funny
Other words from funny
- fun·ni·ly, adverb
- fun·ni·ness, noun
- un·fun·ni·ly, adverb
- un·fun·ni·ness, noun
Other definitions for funny (2 of 2)
a shell or light skiff rowed by one person with sculls.
Origin of funny
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How to use funny in a sentence
Nothing made Groucho funnier than having this Margaret Dumont around not understanding the jokes.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire | William O’Connor | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAs played by Omundson, King Richard is effeminate, sincere, and ten times funnier than everyone else.
So that changed my bit, and then I just got to openly mock him on live national television, which was almost a funnier joke.
Oscars Host Neil Patrick Harris on His Best and Worst Emcee Moments (VIDEO) | Neil Patrick Harris | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome are funnier than others, though the good ones are pretty great.
South Park is not just funnier than any of those shows—it refuses to let us escape the god-forsaken world in which we live.
Oh, it's just a little joke of your father's; nothing funnier ever happened in a state convention.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonI don't do it in private, because it is funnier to do it in public.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill | Gilbert K. ChestertonI've noticed you said so, but it don't look any funnier than you do when you say it.
Ramsey Milholland | Booth TarkingtonOh, nothing much—a so-called funny book—one of these days I'll write a funnier book than that, myself.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineI never saw anything funnier than those steers and a huge snapping turtle.
Old Rail Fence Corners | Various
British Dictionary definitions for funny
/ (ˈfʌnɪ) /
causing amusement or laughter; humorous; comical
peculiar; odd
suspicious or dubious (esp in the phrase funny business)
informal faint or ill: to feel funny
informal a joke or witticism
Derived forms of funny
- funnily, adverb
- funniness, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with funny
In addition to the idioms beginning with funny
- funny bone
- funny business
- funny money
, also see under
- fun
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