funny
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i 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.
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Funny
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Related forms
fun·ni·ly, adverb
fun·ni·ness, noun
un·fun·ni·ly, adverb
un·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.
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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noun, plural fun·nies.
a shell or light skiff rowed by one person with sculls.
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World English Dictionary
funny (ˈfʌnɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , -nier, -niest | |
| 1. | causing amusement or laughter; humorous; comical |
| 2. | peculiar; odd |
| 3. | suspicious or dubious (esp in the phrase funny business) |
| 4. | informal faint or ill: to feel funny |
| —n , -nier, -niest, -nies | |
| 5. | informal a joke or witticism |
| 'funnily | |
| —adv | |
| 'funniness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
funny
"humorous," 1756, from fun (q.v.). Meaning "strange, odd" is 1806, said to be originally U.S. Southern. The two senses of the word lead to the retort question "funny ha-ha or funny peculiar," which is attested from 1938. Related: Funnier; funniest. Funny farm "mental hospital" is slang from 1963. Funny
bone "elbow end of the humerus" is 1840; funnies "newspaper comic strips" is from 1852.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
It was also funny having to consider other people's tastes.
Funny how the website actually spins this little tidbit as something that gives it credence.
He could be hilariously funny, have you rolling on the floor.
Funny thing is they don't even realize they are contributing to their own doom.
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