funny
Plural: funnies
Noun
- A comic strip or something amusing.
- an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line)
- "she told a funny story"
- "she made a funny"
- A joke.
- A comic strip.
- Humor in general.
- A narrow, clinker-built double-ender for sculling.
Adjective Satellite
- arousing or provoking laughter
- "funny stories that made everybody laugh"
- "a very funny writer"
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- "her speech has a funny twang"
- "they have some funny ideas about war"
- not as expected
- "up to some funny business"
- experiencing odd bodily sensations
- "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest"
Adj
- Amusing; humorous; comical.
- Strange or unusual, often in an unpleasant way.
- Showing unexpected resentment.
- Homosexual; gay.
Adv
- In an unusual manner; strangely.
- In a manner seen as being typical of a homosexual, or indicating homosexuality.
Adjective
- Causing laughter or amusement; odd or peculiar.
Examples
- Finally, the funny.
- He found a funny in the newspaper that perfectly described his last Words With Friends game.
- His funny word choices always kept his Scrabble opponents guessing.
- I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
- The milk smelt funny so I poured it away.
- When I went to the circus, I only found the clowns funny.
- Where's the funny? Your meme sucks.
Origin / Etymology
From fun + -y.
Synonyms
amusing, comic, comical, curious, fishy, funny remark, funny story, good story, laughable, mirthful, odd, peculiar, queer, risible, rum, rummy, shady, singular, suspect, suspicious, chucklesome, comedic, droll, filarious, frolicsome, funnily, funnisome, funny, gut-busting, hilarious, howlarious, humorous, humourful, hysterical, jocular, joculatory, jokes, jokesome, joky, laugh-out-loud, laughworthy, playful, rib-tickling, screaming, sidesplitting, sniggersome, tattyfilarious, thalian, thigh-slapping, uproarious, wacky, zany
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
funny: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfunny: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
funny: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary