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FUNNY
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Irregular inflected forms: funnier , funniest
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line)
Example:
she made a funny
Synonyms:
funny; funny remark; funny story; good story
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("funny" is a kind of...):
gag; jape; jest; joke; laugh (a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Example:
singular behavior
Synonyms:
curious; funny; odd; peculiar; queer; rum; rummy; singular
Classified under:
Similar:
strange; unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Arousing or provoking laughter
Example:
risible courtroom antics
Synonyms:
amusing; comic; comical; funny; laughable; mirthful; risible
Classified under:
Similar:
humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)
Derivation:
fun (activities that are enjoyable or amusing)
funniness (a comic incident or series of incidents)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not as expected
Example:
suspicious behavior
Synonyms:
fishy; funny; shady; suspect; suspicious
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
questionable (subject to question)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Experiencing odd bodily sensations
Example:
told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
Context examples:
And the funniest part of it is that many of the clever people, and all the would-be clever people, allow the idlers so to impose upon them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It’s funny, a check I wrote five months ago to someone who works for me never arrived (and of course, I sent a replacement within ten days).
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It's funny we should both sail under sealed orders from a man we don't know.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The third day one of the messengers came back, and said, “I have travelled two days without hearing of any other names; but yesterday, as I was climbing a high hill, among the trees of the forest where the fox and the hare bid each other good night, I saw a little hut; and before the hut burnt a fire; and round about the fire a funny little dwarf was dancing upon one leg, and singing.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It is a funny sight. I want to laugh out loud, Ha! ha! just like that, it is so funny.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
This afternoon she made a funny remark.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But there is, if you will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"This funny tin man," she answered, "killed the Wildcat and saved my life. So hereafter you must all serve him, and obey his slightest wish."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
A very merry lunch it was, for everything seemed fresh and funny, and frequent peals of laughter startled a venerable horse who fed near by.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I recently saw a funny T-shirt on a tiny child, age 3: “Mommy is Tired. Call Grandma!”
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
