Word Meanings - FUN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun." Goldsmith. To make fan of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FUN)

• Drollery
• Fun
• whimsicality
• comicality
• trickery
• buffoonery
• facetiousness
• pleasantry
• Humor
• Disposition
• temper
• mood
• caprice
• jocoseness
• frame
• drollery
• fun
• Jest
• Joke
• raillery
• sport
• quip
• witticism
• Jollification
• Revelry
• festivity
• conviviality
• carnival
• merrymaking
• Sport
• Play
• frolic
• wantonness
• joke
• diversion
• merriment
• gaiety
• amusement
• recreation
• game
• pastime

Related words: (words related to FUN)

• HUMOR
  A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• FROLICKY
  Frolicsome. Richardson.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• PASTIME
  That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
• BUFFOONERY
  The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• SPORTLESS
  Without sport or mirth; joyless.
• HUMOROUSLY
  1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily.
• SPORTING
  Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• RECREATION
  The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
• CARNIVAL
  prop., the putting away of meat; fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh _ levare 1. A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days before Lent, ending with
• SPORTAL
  Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
• TEMPERER
  One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
• HUMORSOMENESS
  Quality of being humorsome.
• TEMPERATURE
  Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or
• TEMPERAMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. Sir T. Browne.
• HUMORIST
  One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors. 2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways. He . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life. Addison. 3. One who displays
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• ATTEMPER
  1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• DISTEMPERATURE
  1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• UNTEMPERATE
  Intemperate.
• ILL-TEMPERED
  1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• DISPORTMENT
  Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More.