fun·ny1    
[fuhn-ee] Show IPA
adjective, -ni·er, -ni·est, noun, plural -nies.
–adjective
1.
providing fun; causing amusement or laughter; amusing; comical: a funny remark; a funny person.
2.
attempting to amuse; facetious: Did you really mean that or were you just being funny?
3.
warranting suspicion; deceitful; underhanded: We thought there was something funny about those extra charges.
4.
Informal . insolent; impertinent: Don't get funny with me, young man!
5.
curious; strange; peculiar; odd: Her speech has a funny twang.
–noun
6.
Informal . a funny remark or story; a joke: to make a funny.
7.
funnies,
a.
comic strips.
b.
Also called funny paper. the section of a newspaper reserved for comic strips, word games, etc.
Origin:
1750–60; fun + -y1

—Related forms
fun·ni·ly, adverb
fun·ni·ness, noun
un·fun·ni·ly, adverb
un·fun·ni·ness, noun

—Synonyms
1. diverting, comic, farcical, ridiculous, droll, witty, facetious, humorous. Funny, laughable, ludicrous refer to that which excites laughter. Funny and laughable are both applied to that which provokes laughter or deserves to be laughed at; funny is a colloquial term loosely applied and in popular use is commonly interchangeable with the other terms: a funny story, scene, joke; a laughable incident, mistake. That which is ludicrous excites laughter by its incongruity and foolish absurdity: The monkey's attempts to imitate the woman were ludicrous.

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