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fun⋅ny

1  [fuhn-ee] adjective, -ni⋅er, -ni⋅est, noun, plural -nies.
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–adjective
1. providing fun; causing amusement or laughter; amusing; comical: a funny remark; a funny person.
2. attempting to amuse; facetious: Did you really mean that or were you just being funny?
3. warranting suspicion; deceitful; underhanded: We thought there was something funny about those extra charges.
4. Informal. insolent; impertinent: Don't get funny with me, young man!
5. curious; strange; peculiar; odd: Her speech has a funny twang.
–noun
6. Informal. a funny remark or story; a joke: to make a funny.
7. funnies,
a. comic strips.
b. Also called funny paper. the section of a newspaper reserved for comic strips, word games, etc.
Origin:
1750–60; fun + -y 1

Related forms:
fun⋅ni⋅ly, adverb
fun⋅ni⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. diverting, comic, farcical, ridiculous, droll, witty, facetious, humorous. Funny, laughable, ludicrous refer to that which excites laughter. Funny and laughable are both applied to that which provokes laughter or deserves to be laughed at; funny is a colloquial term loosely applied and in popular use is commonly interchangeable with the other terms: a funny story, scene, joke; a laughable incident, mistake. That which is ludicrous excites laughter by its incongruity and foolish absurdity: The monkey's attempts to imitate the woman were ludicrous.
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fun·ny   (fŭn'ē)   
adj.   fun·ni·er, fun·ni·est
    1. Causing laughter or amusement.
    2. Intended or designed to amuse.
  2. Strangely or suspiciously odd; curious.
  3. Tricky or deceitful.
n.   pl. fun·nies Informal
  1. A joke; a witticism.
  2. funnies
    1. Comic strips.
    2. The section of a newspaper containing comic strips.

[From fun.]
fun'ni·ly adv., fun'ni·ness n.
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