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funny
making you laugh:
• John told me a really funny joke. • She’s very talented and funny.
amusing
especially written funny and enjoyable. Amusing is more formal than funny . It is often used when something is a little funny and makes you smile, rather than laugh:
• an amusing anecdote • He found the whole incident rather amusing .
humorous
intended to be funny – used about stories, films, articles etc that have situations that are a little funny:
• humorous stories • The movie is meant to be humorous.
witty
using words in a funny and clever way:
• witty remarks • How witty!
hilarious
( also hysterical informal ) extremely funny:
• The children thought it was hilarious. • The movie has some hilarious scenes. • It was hysterical! You should have seen his face!
comical
funny in a strange or silly way – often used when something is not intended to be funny:
• It was quite comical watching him trying to dance. • her own comical attempts at painting
comic
[ only before noun ] a comic film, play, novel etc is intended to be funny:
• a comic drama
light-hearted
done for amusement or enjoyment, and not intended to be serious:
• The programme is a light-hearted look at recent political events.
comedy
noun [ countable ] a film, play, or television programme that is intended to be funny:
• a comedy by Shakespeare • She has appeared in several television comedies. • a new comedy series on Channel 4
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adj. making you laugh VERBS be, look, seem | become, get The movie gets funnier towards the end. | find sth ADV. achingly, bloody (taboo), brilliantly, dead, extraordinarily, extremely, genuinely, hilariously, hysterically, really, riotously, terribly, uproariously, very, wickedly, wildly, wonderfully At last, a genuinely funny comedy show! His performance was hilariously funny. You should have seen it?it was terribly funny! | almost | pretty, quite | unintentionally strange VERBS be, feel, look, seem, smell, sound, strike sb as, taste Didn't it strike you as funny that Adam wasn't there? This wine tastes funny. | find sth Don't you find it a bit funny that she never mentions her husband? ADV. extremely, really, very | a bit, a little, pretty, rather Helen gave me a rather funny look. PHRASES funny little He's a funny little man. | funny old It's a funny old world, isn't it?
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