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ADJECTIVE funny COMPARATIVE funnier SUPERLATIVE funniest

funny English

Meaning funny meaning

What does funny mean?

Definitions in simple English

funny Adjective

— Funny things keep people interested and can make people laugh. That was a funny joke. — Funny things are strange and unusual. This rotten milk has a funny smell.

funny Noun

— A funny is a joke.

funny

— adjective (= amusing, comic, comical, laughable, mirthful, risible) 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 — adjective (= curious, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, singular) 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 — adjective (= fishy, shady, suspect, suspicious) 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 — adjective experiencing odd bodily sensations told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest — noun (= funny story) an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line) she told a funny story she made a funny

Synonyms funny synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as funny?

funny English » English

amusing comical humorous strange comic laughable entertaining interesting ridiculous peculiar curious queer odd humourous droll jocular ludicrous hilarious weird wacky risible joking facetious eccentric suspicious singular jocose funny story fishy farcical comically witty whimsical whacky unusual suspect sportive silly showing off shady rummy rum quirky pleasure pleasant playful outlandish mirthful merry laughing

Topics funny topics

What do people use funny to talk about?

Social behavior Social activity

Humor

What words refer to a person's sense of humor (ability to joke)?

sense of humor (have a real) funny bone (be/have a great) wit
What words describe something that is humorous?

humorous funny hilarious hysterical silly comical ludicrous amusing comic absurd facetious droll laughable zany
What words describe a person who jokes?

witty quick-witted smart jocular droll funny waggish facetious whimsical humorous comic

States Quality Type, kind Common

Strange

What words describe something that is strange?

strange odd funny peculiar weird

Person Body Limb

Arm

What are the parts of the arm?

shoulder armpit upper arm elbow funny bone (nerve in elbow) forearm lower arm wrist

Person Healthy

Sick

What words refer to feeling sick?

feel ill not feel well feel rough feel funny feel sick feel sick to your stomach groggy feel faint

Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Walk

What words refer to the way in which a person walks?

gait funny gait

Examples funny examples

How do I use funny in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It was a pleasure to spend the evening with a smart, funny and beautiful girl like you.

Whether a joke is found to be funny depends strongly on the culture.

That wasn't funny.

This is not funny!

You're a funny one.

I feel funny today.

I told you it was funny.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

A funny thing happened to me today.

He had a very funny nickname.

Tom can be really funny when he wants to be.

I don't find this funny at all.

The jokes you told us the other day weren't very funny.

You look funny in the hat.

That comedian is very funny.

Something funny is always happening in our class.

Is my new hair style funny?

I like funny movies better.

I had a funny dream last night.

The audience was diverted with funny stories.

The clown made a funny face.

He told us such a funny story that we all laughed.

His story was so funny that everyone could not help laughing.

He amused us with a funny story.

He told a funny story.

Daddy loves to say funny things.

Want to hear something funny?

The teacher told us a funny story.

That joke isn't funny.

Her hat looked funny.

Most funny stories are based on comic situations.

It is funny for him to say so.

His hat looked very funny.

Movie subtitles

The funny thing is, I don't really remember getting here.

They're probably having sex or something. Oh, you're a funny guy.

It's very funny to see him go away like an idiot.

It's so funny!

It's a funny old world.

No, but I have a funny feeling you're about to tell me.

That's so funny.

That's so funny, but we're not a couple.

I mean, maybe you love stick balloons a little bit, because you think they're funny and charming, kind of, in an, uh, unthreatening way.

Yeah, that's funny.

It's really funny.

Mrs. Chan. What an Uber-duber coinkydinky to run into you here. That's so funny.

Mrs. Chan, it is so funny that I very coincidentally ran into you, because I, um. I actually just-just bought Jayma a wedding present.

That's funny, uh, 'cause the way I remember it, the one time I really needed you, you know, when my wife was killed, you got coked up and burned down the restaurant we worked at.

It's funny.

You know. It wasn't always funny at the time.

That's a funny question.

I never saw anything so funny before.

Wasn't it funny?

Does something strike you funny about this picture?

It isn't as funny as all that.

Zeke always told me women were damned funny.

Isn't it funny?

Funny guy, ain't you, Flaherty?

John. That funny little old professor, he has a crucifix.

You're a funny kind of a duck, but I like you.

Every time you speak you make a funny noise.

But this tampon shit, it's not so fucking funny.

Oh, you're a funny guy.

You talk very funny.

Stop trying to be funny.

Oh. That's so funny.

Mrs. Chan, it is so funny that I very coincidentally ran into you, because I, um.

I mean, I could also go for champagne, but shots are funny, too. Okay.

That's really funny, but let's dance for.

News and current affairs

So it's funny to boast that one's own brand of knowledge, whether experimental physics, mathematics, or cosmology, is useless.

After all, it would not be funny if a charity dedicated to famine relief celebrated its own ineffectiveness; practical value in that case would be paramount, because it would be the only real reason for the charity to exist.

This now seems funny from my point of view, but it is not funny for the politicians who do not know if they have collaborated or not according to the law.

These stories would be no more than funny - which they are certainly are - if they were not so damaging to Italy and revelatory of the country's immobile politics.

All three of the leaders of Citizen's Platform are handsome and bright, intelligent and funny.

To be funny in politics and to preserve democracy is no easy task.

To be funny in politics really means the ability to deliver feelings of satisfaction to the citizenry for their participation in the public realm.

His rants against the elites were often confused, but he was funny, which made the old elite politicians look like stuffy old bores - which many of them were.

For those of us in Cuba old enough to take a similar trip, our journey with Che, the young man with the funny accent and starred beret, began with less romance.

I seem to have been one of the few journalists who from the outset didn't think that Donald Trump's entry into the presidential race was funny.

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