funnyadjective
uk/ˈfʌn.i/us/ˈfʌn.i/funny adjective (HUMOROUS)
A1 humorous; causing laughter:
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- He was being funny but I think he was half serious.
- A funny thing happened in the office today.
- Her new book's hilariously funny.
- His speech was full of inanities that were meant to be funny.
- He's naturally funny - he doesn't even have to try.
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Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- hysterical
- jocular
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- tongue
- witty
- wordplay
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funny adjective (STRANGE)
B1 strange, surprising, unexpected, or difficult to explain or understand:
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- This bacon smells a bit funny - do you think it's gone off?
- Over the years we've got used to his funny little ways.
- Roz has adopted one or two funny mannerisms since she's been away.
- That smell is making feel a bit funny.
- Why are you being funny with me? Have I done something wrong?
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Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- add
- bizarre
- curious
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- kinky
- kooky
- like nothing (else) on earth idiom
- like nothing on earth idiom
- not add up idiom
- peculiarly
- random
- rum
- sicko
- singularity
- singularly
- weird
- whacky
- whimsical
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funny adjective (DISHONEST)
informal dishonest; involving cheating:
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Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- down-and-dirty
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- low-down
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- sugar-coated
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
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funny adjective (UNFRIENDLY)
[ after verb ] UK informal unfriendly or seeming to be offended:
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Not being friendly
- (at) daggers drawn idiom
- abrasive
- antisocial
- asocial
- austere
- estrange
- estranged
- forbidding
- frostily
- give sb the time of day idiom
- hostile
- icy
- saturnine
- sour
- unsociable
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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funny adjective (ILL)
[ after verb ] informal slightly ill:
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Not fit & healthy
- bedridden
- critical list
- crook
- danger list
- dehydrated
- emaciated
- far gone
- frailty
- groggy
- ill
- infirmity
- insufficiency
- knock
- malaise
- not agree with sb idiom
- organic
- relapse
- shadow
- sick
- starved
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funny adjective (CRAZY)
UK informal slightly crazy:
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Stupid and silly
- (as) thick as two short planks idiom
- absurd
- adolescent
- against your better judgment idiom
- asinine
- be crazy about sb/sth idiom
- dotty
- dozy
- drink, laugh, etc. yourself silly idiom
- drivel
- dumb
- gibber
- laughable
- loony
- loopy
- lumpen
- lumpish
- slow
- witless
- wrongheaded
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Idiom(s)
funnynoun
uk/ˈfʌn.i/us/ˈfʌn.i/the series of drawings in a newspaper that tell a humorous story
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Newspapers & magazines: headlines & features
- advertorial
- agony column
- back pages
- banner headline
- bulletin
- column
- comic strip
- dateline
- double(-page) spread
- editorial
- exclusive
- filler
- lead 1
- leader
- masthead
- op-ed
- personal column
- press cutting
- pullout
- spread
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