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单词 funny
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funnyadjective

uk/ˈfʌn.i/us/ˈfʌn.i/

funny adjective (HUMOROUS)

A1 humorous; causing laughter:

Do you know any funny jokes?
I've never found Charlie Chaplin very funny.
It's a really funny film.
It's not funny - don't laugh!
Breaking your leg isn't funny (= it is serious).
No matter how disastrous the situation there always seems to be a funny side to it.
Don't you try to be funny with me (= be serious and show respect), young man!

More examples

  • 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:

The washing machine is making a funny noise again.
He's got some funny ideas about how to bring up children.
That's funny - I'm sure I left my keys here.
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the crematorium.
I felt funny when I realized everyone was watching me.
It's funny how Alec always disappears whenever there's work to be done.
She's a funny girl (= she is strange and difficult to understand).
UK informal The television's gone funny (= isn't working correctly).

More examples

  • 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:

I think there's something funny going on next door.

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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:

I'm not being funny or anything but I think I'd rather go on my own.
She sounded a bit funny with me on the phone last night and I wondered if I'd offended her.

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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:

I don't know if it was something I ate but I'm feeling a little bit funny.

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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:

All the stress made him go a bit funny.

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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)

funny ha-ha or funny peculiar?
it's a funny old world

funnynoun

uk/ˈfʌn.i/us/ˈfʌn.i/
the funnies [ plural ] mainly US

the series of drawings in a newspaper that tell a humorous story

See also
comic strip

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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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