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a funny story
a hilarious story
an amusing story
a comedic story
an entertaining story
a laughable story
a funny girl
a comical girl
a witty girl
a humorous girl
a quirky girl
a smiley girl
funny feeling
strange feeling
unusual feeling
odd feeling
peculiar feeling
weird feeling
funny business
crazy business
silly business
goofy business
weird business
wacky business
a funny thing
an interesting thing
a curious thing
an ironic thing
an amazing thing
a laughable thing

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of funny
Adjective
Raw, irreverent and funny as hell, this is a slim volume that punches powerfully. Fran Littlewood june 24, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025 Aquarius readers will love this fresh and funny take on post-breakup freedom and reinvention. Lizz Schumer, People.com, 24 June 2025
Noun
At times laugh-out-loud funny, the film explores the effects Johnson’s journey has had on his life and those around him, including Johnson’s father and teenage son. Addie Morfoot, Variety, 1 Jan. 2025 Speaking of funnies, stop publishing ones that aren’t funny! Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for funny
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funny
Adjective
  • In her recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday, June 24, the actress shared a humorous story about her children's reaction to her mullet haircut for the film.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 28 June 2025
  • There were humorous suggestions to get round the problem, such as clitch, but none caught on.
    David Crystal June 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • While most players at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship are battling the Texas heat, slow play, and a demanding Fields Ranch East layout, Leona Maguire is dealing with something far more bizarre—tick bites!
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
  • And frankly that bizarre idea makes the PEN Charter incoherent too.
    Kamila Shamsie June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Now, another unusual way to grab hiring managers attention is going viral: Sneaking your resume into a box of donuts.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 20 June 2025
  • Is there a relationship between writing and fiction and unusual height?
    Jane Smiley June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Igor Jesus, one of the breakout stars of the Club World Cup, celebrates his goals by imitating a character from a Japanese cartoon.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • The show received mixed to positive reviews for the storyline that reimagines the cartoon character come to life in modern day New York.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • And yet the world is too driven by algorithms, too fragmented in its tastes, to ever be on the same page again and get the same jokes.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
  • She was raised in a society—a West Indian society—that did not put much of a premium on women’s bodies, where any kind of intimacy was a joke.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • The comedic sci-fi film from Amazon MGM Studios follows Gosling, whose character makes a leap from unassuming teacher to an astronaut assigned to a risky space mission.
    Abigail Lee, Variety, 30 June 2025
  • Largely, comedic multi-hyphenates who have gone on to enduring careers in front of and behind the camera.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • This film is set entirely inside a taxi cab that Panahi is driving around Tehran, as different people drift in and out of his car with their own strange and very personal dramas.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • But one of the strangest well wishes came not from a person, but a 1,400-foot-tall building.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Every great American story is sentimental in the same way: instincts born out of struggle, the triumph of the schoolyard over the classroom, uncommon creativity driven by necessity.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • That’s not an uncommon sight for K-pop superstars, as their massive followings understand how the charts work and focus their energy on pushing a title as high as possible in its first frame.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025

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“Funny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funny. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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