funny
arousing or provoking laughter
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,549 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,652 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- arousing or provoking laughter also: amusing, comic, comical, laughable, mirthful, risible an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfallsan amusing fellow
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected also: curious, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy a curious hybrid accenther speech has a funny twang
- not as expected also: fishy, shady, suspect, suspicious there was something fishy about the accidentup to some funny business
- experiencing odd bodily sensations told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest
noun
- an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line) also: funny story, good story, funny remark she told a funny storyshe made a funny
funny in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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It was funny, but it had been prepared by little Wienerwurst.
Half-Past Seven Stories · Robert Gordon Anderson · Chapter 1
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Kat went to the stove--but it was such a funny stove!
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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A short man with a funny face came and sat beside me.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 1
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Its peroration is of peculiar interest, since it consists of a funny story.
Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters · Abraham Lincoln · Chapter 1
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The funny part was he wouldn't say definitely what he was afraid of.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1