Word Meanings - FUNNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FUNNY)

• Droll
• Whimsical
• comical
• odd
• queer
• amusing
• laughable
• funny
• comic
• fantastic
• farcical
• Facetious
• Witty
• humorous
• jocular
• waggish
• playful
• droll
• jocose
• Farcical
• Ludicrous
• nonsensical
• pantomimic
• Jocose
• Humorous
• jolly
• merry
• facetious
• Ridiculous

Related words: (words related to FUNNY)

• FANTASTIC
  1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• FARCICAL
  Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• QUEERISH
  Rather queer; somewhat singular.
• COMICAL
  1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden. Syn. -- Humorous;
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• JOCOSE
  Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts. Syn.
• NONSENSICAL
  Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• LAUGHABLE
  Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene. Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv.
• AMUSE
  1. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could
• WITTY
  1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak. 2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem,
• HUMOROUSLY
  1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily.
• MERRY
  A kind of wild red cherry.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• FANTASTICLY
  Fantastically.
• JOLLY
  jolif, joyful, merry, F. joli pretty; of Scand. origin, akin to E. 1. Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. Like a jolly troop of huntsmen. Shak. "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot
• FANTASTICISM
  The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.
• COMICRY
  The power of exciting mirth; comicalness. H. Giles.
• RAMUSCULE
  A small ramus, or branch.
• HIPPOPOTAMUS
  A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body,
• CAMUS
  See CAMIS
• DROLL
  Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical.