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Funniness
see synonyms of funninessNoun
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Funniness
see synonyms of funninessadjective -nier or -niest
1.
causing amusement or laughter; humorous; comical
2.
peculiar; odd
3.
suspicious or dubious (esp in the phrase funny business)
4. informal
faint or ill
to feel funny
noun plural -nies
5. informal
a joke or witticism
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Funniness
see synonyms of funniness adjectiveWord forms: ˈfunnier or ˈfunniest
1.
causing laughter; laughable; amusing; humorous
2. Informal
a.
out of the ordinary; strange; queer
b. US
deceptive or tricky
noun US
3. Word forms: plural ˈfunnies Informal
a joke or witticism
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Funniness
see synonyms of funninessadj. fun·ni·er, fun·ni·est
1.
a. Causing laughter or amusement: a funny cartoon.
b. Making or given to making amusing jokes or witticisms: a colleague who is very funny.
c. Appropriate as the subject of a joke; deserving of a joke. Used in negative sentences to express disapproval or to emphasize the seriousness of something: There is nothing funny about getting the flu.
2.
a. Difficult to account for; unusual or odd: I had a funny feeling that she would call.
b. Suspiciously odd: It's funny how I seem to lose something every time he comes around.
3. Counterfeit or fraudulent: tried to pass off funny money as legitimate.
4. Informal Somewhat ill, painful, or abnormal: I felt funny after eating those clams. "a mole on his arm that has started to go funny" (Ann Cummins).
5. Informal
a. Offensively forward or disrespectful: She told him off after he started to get funny.
b. Contrary to one's demands or expectations: Don't let the prisoners do anything funny.
n. pl. fun·nies
Informal
Informal
1. A joke; a witticism: "He laughed because he did not know I was not making a funny" (Jonathan Safran Foer).
2. funnies
a. Comic strips.
b. The section of a newspaper containing comic strips.
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