funny
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
funny
adj 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" [syn: {amusing}, {comic}, {comical}, {funny},
{laughable}, {mirthful}, {risible}]
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" [syn:
{curious}, {funny}, {odd}, {peculiar}, {queer}, {rum},
{rummy}, {singular}]
3: 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" [syn: {fishy}, {funny}, {shady},
{suspect}, {suspicious}]
4: experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about
the funny sensations in her chest"
n 1: an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch
line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny" [syn:
{funny story}, {good story}, {funny remark}, {funny}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "funny":
Attic, abnormal, absurd, amusing, anomalous, antic, biting,
bizarre, brilliant, clever, comic, comical, crank, crankish,
cranky, crotchety, curious, deviant, deviative, different,
divergent, diverting, dotty, droll, eccentric, entertaining,
erratic, exceptional, facetious, fantastic, farcical, fey, flaky,
freaked out, freakish, freaky, grotesque, hilarious, humorous,
humorsome, hysterical, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, incongruous,
irregular, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen,
keen-witted, kinky, kooky, laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, merry,
mordant, mysterious, mystifying, nimble-witted, nutty, odd,
oddball, off, off the wall, out, outlandish, passing strange,
peculiar, pointed, priceless, pungent, puzzling, quaint, queer,
quick-witted, quirky, quizzical, rapier-like, remarkable, rich,
ridiculous, risible, salt, salty, scintillating, screaming,
screwball, screwy, sharp, singular, slapstick, smart, sparkling,
sprightly, strange, twisted, unconventional, unearthly, unnatural,
unusual, uproarious, wacky, waggish, weird, whimsical, witty,
wondrous strange, zany
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