Funny \Fun"ny\, a. [Compar. Funnier; superl. Funniest.]
[From Fun.]
Droll; comical; amusing; laughable; inciting laughter.
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Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Funny \Fun"ny\, n.; pl. Funnies.
A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
funny
adj 1: arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a
steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing
fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise";
"funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very
funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it
hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience";
"risible courtroom antics" [syn: amusing, comic, comical,
laughable, mirthful, risible]
2: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious
hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have
some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the
peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely
queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular
behavior" [syn: curious, odd, peculiar, queer, rum,
rummy, singular]
3: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the
accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely
queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were
suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, queer, shady,
suspect, suspicious]
4: experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about
the funny sensations in her chest"
adv 1: in a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper";
"he acted kind of funny" [syn: queerly, strangely,
oddly, funnily]
2: in a comical manner; "she acted comically" [syn: comically]
[also: funniest, funnier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "funny":
Attic, abnormal, absurd, amusing, anomalous, antic, biting,
bizarre, brilliant, clever, comic, comical, crank, crankish,
cranky, crotchety, curious, deviant, deviative, different,
divergent, diverting, dotty, droll, eccentric, entertaining,
erratic, exceptional, facetious, fantastic, farcical, fey, flaky,
freaked out, freakish, freaky, grotesque, hilarious, humorous,
humorsome, hysterical, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, incongruous,
irregular, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen,
keen-witted, kinky, kooky, laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, merry,
mordant, mysterious, mystifying, nimble-witted, nutty, odd,
oddball, off, off the wall, out, outlandish, passing strange,
peculiar, pointed, priceless, pungent, puzzling, quaint, queer,
quick-witted, quirky, quizzical, rapier-like, remarkable, rich,
ridiculous, risible, salt, salty, scintillating, screaming,
screwball, screwy, sharp, singular, slapstick, smart, sparkling,
sprightly, strange, twisted, unconventional, unearthly, unnatural,
unusual, uproarious, wacky, waggish, weird, whimsical, witty,
wondrous strange, zany
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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