fun

[ fuhn ]

/ fʌn /

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noun

something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.

enjoyment or playfulness: She's full of fun.

verb (used with or without object), funned, fun·ning,

Informal. joke; kid.

adjective, fun·ner, fun·nest.

Informal. of or relating to fun, especially to social fun: a fun thing to do; really a fun person; the funnest game.

Informal. whimsical; flamboyant: The fashions this year are definitely on the fun side.

OTHER WORDS FOR fun

1, 2 merriment, pleasure, play, gaiety.

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Idioms about fun

for / in fun, as a joke; not seriously; playfully: His insults were only in fun.

like fun, Informal. certainly not; of doubtful truth: He told us that he finished the exam in an hour. Like fun he did!

make fun of, to make the object of ridicule; deride: The youngsters made fun of their teacher.

Origin of fun

1675–85; dialectal variant of obsolete fon to befool. See fond¹

Words nearby fun

fuming nitric acid, fuming sulphuric acid, fumitory, fumitory family, fumy, fun, Funabashi, Funafuti, funambulist, fun and games, Funchal

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How to use fun in a sentence

The addition of DeAndre Hopkins is making the Arizona Cardinals very fun to watch, and a healthy Cam Newton is showing why the power run is so hard to defend against in New England.
Reading The Right Amount Into The NFL’s Week 1|Sarah Shachat|September 15, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Meanwhile, bounce rate, session duration, and session depth rely on whether there is anything fun to do on your page.
8 major Google ranking factors — SEO guide|Sponsored Content: SEO PowerSuite|September 15, 2020|Search Engine Land
So when Mitsu got the AAC job, I thought it would be fun to interview him, but not so formally.
A Very Informal Interview with Mitsu Iwasaki|Brendan Leonard|September 14, 2020|Outside Online
Brands have found hashtag challenges are a useful hook for creating fun, shareable and viral content on TikTok.
Deep Dive: How the Summer of 2020 forced brand marketing to change for the better|jim cooper|September 14, 2020|Digiday

This person lists all the benefits of these environmentally positive behaviors, offers to make the actions easier for you, and gives you a fun goodie bag.
How a vacation—or a pandemic—can help you adopt better habits now|matthewheimer|September 12, 2020|Fortune
It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie|Arthur Chu|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.
Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire|Lloyd Grove|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And yes, our values include tolerance of those who wish to make fun of religion.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Our Duty Is to Keep Charlie Hebdo Alive|Ayaan Hirsi Ali|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Like I would do something making fun of somebody who was already down.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire|William O’Connor|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But quite unlike the schmuck, and this is the fun part, they never run up the white flag; indeed quite the opposite.
Steve Scalise and the Right’s Ridiculous Racial Blame Game|Michael Tomasky|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
There'll be heaps uh fun in the Cypress Hills country when they get t' runnin' the whisky-jacks out.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Gottschal knew perfectly well what was wanting, but he wished to have a little fun out of the matter.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
We had our fun, and cleared besides a profit of nearly four pounds sterling.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
At lunch he was the greatest possible fun, bubbling over with jokes and witty sallies.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Alila has still another way of fishing which is not as hard work as diving, though, after all, it is not much fun.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade

British Dictionary definitions for fun

fun

/ (fʌn) /

noun

a source of enjoyment, amusement, diversion, etc

pleasure, gaiety, or merriment

jest or sport (esp in the phrases in or for fun)

fun and games facetious, ironic amusement; frivolous activity

like fun informal

(adverb) quickly; vigorously
(interjection) not at all! certainly not!

make fun of or poke fun at to ridicule or deride

(modifier) full of amusement, diversion, gaiety, etca fun sport

verb funs, funning or funned

(intr) informal to act in a joking or sporting manner

Word Origin for fun

C17: perhaps from obsolete fon to make a fool of; see fond 1

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 fun

fun

In addition to the idiom beginning with fun

fun and games
funny bone
funny business
funny money

also see:

for fun
like fun
make fun of
more fun than a barrel of monkeys

Also see underfunny.