Funny

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Funny \Fun"ny\, a. [Compar. {Funnier}; superl. {Funniest}.]
     [From {Fun}.]
     Droll; comical; amusing; laughable; inciting laughter.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Funny bone}. See {crazy bone}, under {Crazy}.


        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Funny \Fun"ny\, n.; pl. {Funnies}.
     A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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},
               {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}, {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}, {queer}, {shady},
           {suspect}, {suspicious}]
       4: experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about
          the funny sensations in her chest"
       adv 1: in a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper";
              "he acted kind of funny" [syn: {queerly}, {strangely},
               {oddly}, {funnily}]
       2: in a comical manner; "she acted comically" [syn: {comically}]
       [also: {funniest}, {funnier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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