Funnily

//ˈfʌnəli// adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a funny or amusing manner.

    "In this respect then, Gabriel's repetitive lyric of everyone playing: “games without frontiers and war without tears” was on the one hand quite funnily wrong. 'It's a Knockout' produced tears of laughter. […]"

  2. 2
    In a strange or unexpected manner, especially of a coincidence.

    "Who, Bob? I just ran into him last week, funnily enough."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a strange manner wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
amusinglybroadlyfunnyhumorouslyoddlyqueerly

Example

More examples

"A new bar has opened up near where I live. It's called "Wählbar", a German word. Funnily enough however, the staff can't pronounce it."

Etymology

From funny + -ly.

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