Synonyms of funnily

funnily

adverb

as in strangely

Related Words

• strangely
• oddly
• peculiarly
• unusually
• weirdly
• extraordinarily
• abnormally
• queerly
• uncommonly
• irregularly
• atypically
• untypically
• anomalously
• radically

Dissimilar Words

• usually
• generally
• commonly
• normally
• naturally
• typically
• ordinarily
• regularly
• natch
• customarily
• habitually
• routinely
• familiarly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of funnily

And funnily enough, the obsession The Bear’s characters have with perfection and process mirrors the neuroticism of modern television itself. — Henry Metz, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

Caitlin Clark is tied, funnily enough, with Angel Reese atop the league with seven technical fouls apiece. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026

The top of the Z Fold 8 Ultra features a pop-out nanoSIM slot and, funnily enough, it's flipped compared with the Z Fold 7. — Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 6 Aug. 2026

The path to chair-making, funnily enough, began with the wood itself—his discovery that objects could be made straight from the log, free of wooden boards and power tools. — Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026

The couple reportedly first met at a polo match in 1986, where, funnily enough, Dodi’s team played against Diana’s then-husband’s team. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 1 July 2026

Burnham’s path to power is, funnily enough, more typical of American politicians than British ones. — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026

Your relationship is as unique as your fingerprint, so your list of do’s and don’ts will be, too — which, funnily enough, is precisely what psychological researchers want to see. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026

The 1929 landmark building has long attracted Hollywood writers and actors, and funnily enough, Rhimes’s unit once doubled as Olivia Pope’s apartment in early episodes of Scandal. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2026

Video

Fun, Funner, Funnest

TRANSCRIPT

Welcome to Ask the Editor. I'm Emily Brewster, an associate editor at Merriam-Webster.
 
- I've never been to a funner party.
- It was the funnest party I can remember.
 
As a one-syllable adjective, fun should by all rights have the comparative and superlative forms funner and funnest, just like new has newer and newest. But, spellcheckers and lots of people think funner and funnest are just plain wrong.
 
The not-quite-kosher status of funner and funnest has its origin in the adjectival status itself of fun. Just as funnest party sounds strange to many of us, there are a number of people who also object to sentences like, "The party was really fun."
 
They'd prefer we all use fun only as a noun.
- We had great fun.
- The party was such fun.
 
Adjectival use dates back at least as far as the 1840s, but until the mid-20th century, it was pretty rare. Perhaps there was something about postwar America that just felt, oh, more fun to people than a noun could express.
 
Fun as a noun does continue to be more common, and there are still some who think uses like so fun, very fun, and fun times should be avoided in any kind of serious discourse, but their numbers are dwindling, and the adjective fun is fully accepted by a number of dictionaries, including ours.
 
Does this mean funner and funnest are destined for full acceptance, too? Certainly possible. Likely, even.
 
More fun and most fun are still the usual comparative and superlative forms of fun, but funner and funnest are included in our dictionaries, with a sometimes label, because we have plenty of evidence of them in published, edited text.
 
They're most natural when paired with other similar adjectives; a bigger and funner event, the funnest and funniest person.
 
I say, don't hesitate to use them if you're inclined to. It'll be funner if you do.
 
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