Funny

Definition: Funny

Funny

Adjective

1. 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".

2. 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".

3. (informal) 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".

4. Experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest".

Adverb

1. In a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper"; "he acted kind of funny".

2. In a comical manner; "she acted comically".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "funny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Note: Funny \Fun"ny\, adjective. [Comparative Funnier; superlative Funniest.]. (references)

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Funny

Amusement

Funny; very funny, hilarious, uproarious, side-splitting.

Money

Counterfeit, funny money, bogus money, (see falsehood).

Ridiculousness

Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly).

Ship

Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.

Unconformity

Adjective: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny.

Wit

Funny, amusing; (amusement).

Crosswords: Funny

Nothing funny, I just like talent (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

Were you watching Spanktravision? Or were you watching that funny comedian, oh what's his name, Buddy Wackit (Tommy Boy; writing credit: Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner.)

You ever try to not to laugh in church when something funny gets stuck in your head (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

It was at a funny angle (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you (Ironic; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

Funny, but it's still rock and roll to me (It's Still Rock and Roll To Me; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Funny days in the park, Every day's the Fourth of July ("Saturday in the Park"; performing artist: Chicago)

It's so funny how we don't talk anymore (We Don't Talk Anymore; performing artist: Cliff Richard)

This Would Be Really Funny If It Weren't Happening To Me. (references; author: unknown)

Funny thing about humility: Just when you think you've got it, you've lost it. (references; author: unknown)

Isn't it funny how the mood can be ruined so quickly by just one busted condom. (references; author: unknown)

Funny how a dollar can look so big when you take it to church, and so small when you take it to the store. (references; author: unknown)

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. Ideas are funny little things, they won't work unless you do. (references; author: unknown)

Funny Car Summer (1974)

Berry Funny (1971)

Funny Face (1971)

The Funny Side (1971)

Funny Girl (1968)

She Has Funny Cars (performing artist: Jefferson Airplane)

Ain't It Funny (performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

Funny How Time Slips Away (performing artist: Joe Hinton)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Funny Dogs (reference)

• Little Critter's Read-It-Yourself Storybook: Six Funny Easy-To-Read Stories (reference)

• Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts Funny Sayings: A Stupendous Collection of Quotes, Quips, Epigrams, Witticisms, and Humorous Comments. for Personal (reference)

• The Best of the Best American Humor: The Funniest Cartoons, Columns, and Essays from the Funny Times Newspaper (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Funny Times (reference)

• We Re Living In Funny Times (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Funny Girl (reference)

• Teletubbies - Silly Songs and Funny Dances (reference)

• Teletubbies - Funny Day (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sexy Funny Bastard (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Funny Flix (3 pack) Vol. 1 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Chow Now 8-piece Tableware Set - Funny Food Faces (reference)

• Funny Faces - Mobile (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Some funny things at Barnum's. Credit: Library of Congress.

"What's so funny, monsieur? I'm only trying to find my way". Credit: Library of Congress.

"Funny thing happened on my way to the roundup". Credit: Library of Congress.

In a scene from the movie, "A Funny thing happened on the way to the Forum," Zero Mostel, standing behind a wall with a perplexed expression, listens to Michael Crawford, who is hanging upside down. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mexican miners looking at "funny papers." Bertha Hill, Scotts Run, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

One of the Schulstead children reading funny papers. Aberdeen, South Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chas. H. Yale and Sidney R. Ellis' The evil eye, or The further funny freaks of Nid and the continued comical contortions of Nod. Credit: Library of Congress.

Funny Geo. Sidney as Busy Izzy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Second edition of the funniest farce in the world, Shantytown everything new, funny comedians, pretty girls. Credit: Library of Congress.

Houdini, nothing on earth can hold Houdini! Fred Ray & Co. in an intensely funny "Roman travesty" .... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They scream, they scold, if you only knew how funny they are

It had a funny face but it was very like a man with a beard

But this guy was funny.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Watch funny movies. (references)

It's common for marijuana users to become engrossed with ordinary sights, sounds, or tastes, and trivial events may seem extremely interesting or funny. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "funny": comic comical funny laughable risible ♦ damned funny ♦ exceedingly funny ♦ feel funny ♦ funny behaviour ♦ funny bone ♦ funny farm ♦ funny guy ♦ funny house ♦ funny man ♦ funny money ♦ funny paper ♦ funny papers ♦ funny peculiar ♦ funny story ♦ funny wagon ♦ hilariously funny ♦ irresistibly funny ♦ it was too funny for words! ♦ killingly funny ♦ screamingly funny ♦ terrifically funny ♦ very funny. Additional references.

Beginning with "funny": funny-farm, funny-looking, funny-man, funny-money, funny-sad, funny-smelling.

Ending with "funny": boring-but-sometimes-funny, f-funny, so-funny.

Afrikaans

amusant (amusing, entertaining). (various references)

Albanian

faqe me skica komike, zbavitës (amusing, diverting, entertaining, escapist, full of beans, light), qesharak (absurd, buffo, comic, comical, derisive, farcical, foolish, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous, risible), komik (comic, comical, droll), i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, dulcet, entertaining, good, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, handsome, jocose, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, piquant, pleasant, pretty, Savory, savoury, smooth, soft, sweet, sympathetic), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكاهي (comic, comical, humorous, wit), ‏مسل (amusing, comforting, consolatory, entertaining, sportive), ‏مضحك (buffoon, burlesque, clown, comedian, comic, comical, comics, droll, farcical, foolish, harlequin, humorous, jester, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, merry andrew, ridiculous, risible, silly, wag), ‏هزلي (burlesque, comic, comical, doggie, farcical, humorous, joker, prankish, priceless, quizzical, waggish), ‏غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, bizarre, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, grotesque, intruder, ludicrous, new, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, rum, senseless, singular, strange, stranger, tall, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unfamiliar, unnatural, whimsical), ‏عجيب (amazement, bizarre, fanciful, freakish, marvellous, marvelous, odd, odd jobs, peculiar, phenomenal, portentous, prestigious, puzzling, rats, rum, staring, stupendous, tall, temperamental, weird, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), ‏الجزء الهزلي, ‏رسوم هزلية (comic, comics). (various references)

Bulgarian 

странен (bizarre, comic, comical, fantastic, fantastical, freakish, grotesque, novel, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, remarkable, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, strange, uncanny, unco, unheard of, weird, whimsical), смешен (amusing, comic, comical, derisive, derisory, farcical, foolish, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, ridiculous, risible, screwy), чуден (fantastic, fantastical, freak, freaky, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, peculiar, strange), особен (distinct, especial, exclusive, fanciful, idiosyncratic, individual, odd, original, particular, peculiar, queer, special, specific, strange, uncommon), малка двугребна лодка, забавен (amusing, comic, comical, delayed, diverting, entertaining, interesting, laughable, merry, recreational, recreative, sportful). (various references)

Chinese 

滑稽 (Facetious, Zany). (various references)

Czech

zvláštní (curious, extra, extraordinary, individual, intriguing, odd, outlandish, particular, peculiar, quaint, queer, singular, special, strange, unique, weird), smìšný (antic, derisory, facetious, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, piffling, quizzical, ridiculous, risible), povedený (hilarious), legrační, legraèní (amusing, chaffy, comic, comical, facetious, good, humorous, piffling), komický (amusing, comic, comical, droll, grotesque, humorous, quaint), žertovný (comic, facetious, jocose, larky, prankful, prankish, quizzical). (various references)

Danish

sjov (comic, comical), morsom (amusing, entertaining). (various references)

Dutch

leuk (amusing, entertaining, fine, fun, glad, nice), amusant (amusing, entertaining). (various references)

Esperanto

komika (comic, comical), amuza (amusing, entertaining). (various references)

Faeroese

margháttligur (comic, comical), løgin (comic, comical, curious, interesting, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange), láturligur (comic, comical). (various references)

Finnish

vitsikäs (witty), lystikäs (amusing, droll, jolly), kiva (cute, jolly good, jolly nice, ripping), hassunkurinen (comical, droll, ludicrous). (various references)

French

comique, amusant, marrant (funny guy), drôle. (various references)

Frisian

fermaaklik (amusing, entertaining), komysk (comic, comical). (various references)

German

komisch (comic, comical, comically, droll, freaky, humorous, odd, oddball, queer, queerly, quizzical, rum, screwy, strange, unlikely), spaßig (droll, funnily, jocular, joky), spaßhaft (comic, comical, droll, sportive), drollig (comic, comical, cunning, droll, jocose, odd, quaint, quizzical, strange), amüsant (amusing, amusingly, enchanting, entertaining, exhilarating). (various references)

Greek 

κωμικόσ (comedian, comic, comical, comocally, facetious, farcical, humorous, ragtime), κωμικός (comic), περίεργος (curious, inquisitiv, odd, out of place, strange), παράξενοσ (bizarre, codger, crotchety, curious, eerie, freakish, grotesque, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, strange), αστείοσ (comical, droll, humorous, jesting, jocose, jocular, ludicrous, quizzical, tickler), αστείος (comic, farcical, jocular). (various references)

Hebrew 

משעשע (amusing, comic, comical, entertaining), מצחיק (amusing, comic, comical, droll, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), הלצי (jocular). (various references)

Hungarian

mulatságos (amusing, comic, comical, droll, entertaining, facetious, humorous, rich, side-splitting), komikus (comedian, comic, comical, funny man, laughable, ludicrous, stooge), furcsa (bizarre, bonkers, cockeyed, curious, dorky, droll, fanciful, fantasy, freakish, freaky, grotesque, how odd that, kooky, louche, odd, outlandish, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, strange, strange to say, weird), vicces (comic, jesting, jocose), bizarr (bizarre, eccentric, fantastic, odd, queer, surreal, weird). (various references)

Indonesian

lucu (arch, burlesque, comic, gaga, jocular), jenaka (arch, comic, droll, jocose, quizzical). (various references)

Irish

greannmhar. (various references)

Italian

divertente (amusing, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, hilarious, humorous), comico (comedian, comic, comical, freaky, funniness, laughable, ludicrous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

面白可笑しい (humorous), ファッション雑誌 (fabric, familiar, familism, family, family bike, family brand, family car, family computer, family fund, family life cycle, family name, family restaurant, family-size, fanatic, fanaticism, far away, farad, fashion magazine, funny face, Nintendo, video game system), 滑稽 (comical, humorous, joking, laughable, ridiculous), 剽軽 (droll, facetious), 変 (change, disturbance, eccentric, flat, incident, odd, peculiar, queer, strange, suspicious-looking), 可笑しい (amusing, ridiculous, strange). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おかしい (amusing, ridiculous, strange), おもしろおかしい (humorous), ファニー , ひょうきん (droll, facetious), こっけい (comical, humorous, joking, laughable, National day, ridiculous, severe punishment), へん (area, biased, book, change, compilation, completed poem, disturbance, eccentric, editing, flat, incident, inclining, inclining toward, left radical of a character, odd, part of book, peculiar, queer, side, strange, suspicious-looking, vicinity). (various references)

Korean 

재미 있는 (Funnier, Funniest). (various references)

Manx

aitt (curiosity, droll, quaint). (various references)

Norwegian

pussig (droll), morsom (humorous, jolly). (various references)

Papiamen

kómiko (comic, comical), dibertido (amusing, entertaining), chistoso (amusing, entertaining), chaskero (amusing, entertaining). (various references)

Pig Latin

unnyfay.(various references)

Polish

zabawny (amusing, entertaining). (various references)

Portuguese

engraçado (amusing, comic, comical, droll, jocose, lively, screaming, screamy, witty), divertido (amused, amusing, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, gamy, gay, hilarious, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportful, sportive, waggish), cômico (bouffe, buffo, comedian, comic, comical, laughable, waggish). (various references)

Romanian

straniu (awesome, bizarre, curiously, eerie, eery, novel, odd, out of the way, particular, peculiar, queer, rum, singular, strange, strangely, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, weird, whimsical), poznaş (arch, elfish, prankish, rogue, roguish, scapegrace, tricksy, tricky, wag, waggish, wanton, wit), nostim (amusing, attractive, droll, good, pert), necurat (accursed, cursed, dark, devilish, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, dubious, shady, suspicious, unclean), nãzdrãvan (droll, fairy, peerless, rogue, supernatural, wonder-working), hazliu (amusing, comic, droll, entertaining, gamesome, humorous, laughable, waggish), glumeţ (amusing, facetious, humorous, jestful, jesting, jocose, lively, merry, playful, prankish, sly, wag, witty), ghiduş (wag, witty), distractiv (amusing, diverting, entertaining, jocular), comic (clownish, comic, comical, comically, droll, humorous, jocular, ludicrous, ludicrously, screaming), ciudat (cranky, curious, droll, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, freakish, intriguing, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), caraghios (antic, blockhead, booby, buffoon, comic, dolt, eccentric, fool, foolish, ridiculous, ridiculously, screaming, singular, strange, zany), şugubãţ (waggish), amuzant (amusing, as good as a play, diverting, droll, entertaining, jocular, laughable, light, quaint). (various references)

Russian 

странный (bizarre, curious, exotic, freakish, freaky, kinky, left-field, odd, oddish, off-the wall, peculiar, phoney, queer, rummy, strange, unaccountable, unco, vagarious, weird), смешной (amusing, comic, comical, farcical, humorous, jokey, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, merry, risible), ялик (dingey, dinghy, scull, skiff, wherry, yawl), забавный (a lot of fun, amusing, comical, droll, entertaining, humorous, jocund, jokey, sportful), потешный (comical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smešan (amusing, comical, droll, hilarious, laughable, ludicrous, rich, ridicule, ridiculous), mali čamac na vesla, komičan (comic), čudan (eccentric, flaky, miraculous, odd, oddish, peculiar, pixilated, quaint, queer, strange, unco, way out, weird, wondrous). (various references)

Spanish

divertido (amused, amusing, comic, comical, distrait, diverting, droll, enchanting, enjoyable, entertaining, jolly, merry), cómico (amusing, comedian, comic, comical, entertaining, humorous, laughable, player, zany), chistoso (comic, comical, facetious, jesting, joker, jokey, wit, wittily). (various references)

Sranan

prisiri (amusing, entertaining, fun, pleasure). (various references)

Swedish

komisk (comic, comical, droll, ridiculous, too much, zany), rolig (amusing, buffo, droll, entertaining, fun, good, hilarious), lustig (amusing, comic, droll, hilarious, humorous, jocular, odd). (various references)

Thai

น่าขบขัน. (various references)

Turkish

tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), sakat (cripple, crippled, crock, defective, disabled, game, gammy, handicapped, incapable of working, infirm, invalid, lame, lame duck, malformed, wonky), komik (amusing, burlesque, comedian, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funnyman, gilbertian, humorous, jesting, jocose, laugh, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, rum, rummy), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), gülünecek (laughable, risible), gülünç (amusing, burlesque, camp, comic, derisive, derisory, droll, fantastic, fantastical, foolish, gilbertian, grotesque, humorous, jesting, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), eğlendirici (diverting, entertaining, fun, hilarious, recreative), şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, fishy, funny peculiar, hazardous, indecisive, indefinable, murky, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, sceptical, screwy, shadowy, shady, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing). (various references)

Turkmen 

gьlkьnз (humorous, ridiculous), gьlkьli (humorous). (various references)

Ukrainian

смішний (amusing, boffo, capricious, comic, comical, droll, laughable, ludicrous, risible, zany), чудний (antic, bizarre, droll, erratic, odd, oddball, oddish, outlandish, singular, strange), кумедний (amusing, killing, laughable, priceless, side-splitting, zany). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuyền một người chèo, ngồ ngộ, khang khác, khôi hài là lạ, buồn cười (droll, jocular, ludicrous, quizzical, ridiculous). (various references)

Welsh

ysmala (amusing, arch, droll), rhyfedd (bizarre, humorous, odd, queer, strange, wonderful), digrif (humorous, mirthful). (various references)

jocularis, ridiculi, salsa, salsae, salsissimi, salsissimum. (various references)

drole. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "funny": funnyman, funnymen. (additional references)

Words ending with "funny": unfunny. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Funny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cunny, Fanney, fanni, fennys, fnung, fonny, fony, fuhn, fundy, funen, funey, funf, fungy, funi, Funia, funn, Funna, funni, funnie, funnium, funo, funon, funy, furni, hunny, munny, Sfunny, uny. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fun, nun.

-3 letters: nu, un.

+2 letters: funnily, unfancy, unfunny.

+3 letters: funnyman, funnymen, unifying.

+5 letters: nonfaculty, nonfluency, nullifying, reunifying, unedifying, unfadingly, unfriendly.