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
My mom is silly, but I wouldn’t say she was particularly funny.
Shankar didn’t realize “funny” could be a full-time job until her first year as a premed student at NYU in 2007.
In one of the funniest pictures, Lopez Boada’s Salome carries the head of Pavón’s John the Baptist in a flimsy metal broiler pan.
For this artist and his girlfriend, life in lockdown became a creative opportunity | Mark Jenkins | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostEivor is funny, too, but mostly when she isn’t trying to be.
All the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ games, ranked | Elise Favis, Gene Park | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostRobin Kemp was 12 hours into the longest day of her journalism career when she got a call from a funny number.
Robin Kemp lost her news job in Clayton County, Ga. — but she kept reporting the news. It paid off on election week. | Reis Thebault | November 10, 2020 | Washington Post
Funnily enough, he was doing a book tour in Australia when I had been cast, but before I came to the States to make the movie.
The Great Character Actor: Guy Pearce on His Brilliant Career, From ‘Priscilla’ to ‘The Rover’ | Richard Porton | May 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut funnily enough, there's obviously a signature—and the collections we make will fit automatically in the total of the rest.
He played for the California prep school Harvard-Westlake, where, funnily enough, his backup was the actor Jason Segel.
Meet Jason Collins, the First Gay Athlete in Major American Sports | Kevin Fallon | April 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNumber one is arguably the most troubling, but funnily enough, it is mostly taken care of by the coding error.
Someone just tweeted very funnily: When we call Republicans cave men, it's not because we think they'll cave!
I never remember stories or anything the right way, my head is so funnily made.
Grandmother Dear | Mrs. MolesworthDilys and Lennie and Hetty of course stand up for you hard, and funnily enough so does Leonora.
The Leader of the Lower School | Angela Brazil"How funnily you express things," she said, half guessing his meaning.
The Salamander | Owen JohnsonThey had also about half-a-dozen children; funnily-small dear little creatures these must have been, to be sure.
Musical Myths and Facts, Volume I (of 2) | Carl EngelThe country looked indescribably desolate; but funnily enough there were a lot of birds flying about, mostly in flocks.
Fanny Goes to War | Pat Beauchamp
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
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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