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Funny   /fˈəni/   Listen
Funny

adjective
(compar. funnier; superl. funniest)
1.
Arousing or provoking laughter.  Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, laughable, mirthful, risible.  "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.  Synonyms: curious, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular.  "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.
Not as expected.  Synonyms: fishy, shady, suspect, suspicious.  "Up to some funny business" , "Some definitely queer goings-on" , "A shady deal" , "Her motives were suspect" , "Suspicious behavior"
4.
Experiencing odd bodily sensations.
noun
(pl. funnies)
1.
An account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line).  Synonyms: funny remark, funny story, good story.  "She made a funny"



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"Funny" Quotes from Famous Books



... waiting a bit for master. He can't come down just this minute," said Jeffy. "Look a here, Miss Anna,—isn't it vastly funny master's bringing a crazy man here? They say down in the kitchen, that as how it wouldn't 'a' been, if you'd been home. It's real good, though. It's the splendidest thing that's happened. Wait till you see him perform. Ask him to sing. It's frolicky ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various

... the jungles a heap of branches and grass, and at first could not make out what it was, but the Gonds soon informed me that these heaps were the nests or lairs of the wild pigs, and they invariably turned them over to look for squeakers. These are funny little things, of a tortoiseshell colour, being striped reddish yellow and dark brown. There is an old writer on Indian field sports, Williamson, who makes some correct observations on the habits of the wild hog, although much in his ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale

... Such lovely colours, and cunning little silk-winders,—it's so funny! But where have you been all this age, Hazel? you have ...
— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner

... looked ALL RIGHT, but it made the banisters look ALL WRONG, and suggested a coat of paint on them also, which Carrie quite agreed with. I walked round to Putley, and fortunately he was out, so I had a good excuse to let the banisters slide. By-the-by, that is rather funny. ...
— The Diary of a Nobody • George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith

... "Funny, miss, Mrs. Bonner's lodger going off like that in such a hurry, wasn't it?" said the girl on her knees ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper


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