Word Type

Noun

Adjective

Adjective

Adverb

The word "funny" can be used as noun, adjective, adjective and adverb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

television

Derived Terms

I'm not being funny do-funny does the Pope wear a funny hat funnies funnily funniment funniness funnisome funny animal funny as a barrel of monkeys funny as a dose of the clap funny bone funny book funny boy funny brownie funny business funny car funny current funny farm funny ha ha funny ha-ha funny in the head funny man funny money funny pages funny paper funny papers funny peculiar funny stuff funny that funny-ish funny-looking funnyman funnywoman ha ha funny ha-ha funny it is not even funny it is not funny it isn't even funny it isn't funny it's not even funny it's not funny nonfunny semi-funny sleep funny unfunny you in the funny pages you in the funny papers

Derived From

fun

Context

british humorous nonstandard uk

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

gag jape jest joke laugh

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

absurd bawdy corny farcical goofball goofy loony ludicrous ribald ridiculous silly

Related Terms

fun witty

Related Terms

amusing boat clinker built comic strip comical fun humorous joke resentment scull strange strangely unexpected unpleasant unusual

Similar Terms

humorous humourous ill ill questionable sick spoopy strange strange unusual

Synonym Network

funny kind of funny sort of funny story joke laughable suspicious

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.