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fun Definition

fun (fun)

noun

    1. lively, joyous play or playfulness; amusement, sport, recreation, etc.
    2. enjoyment or pleasure
  2. a source or cause of amusement or merriment, as an amusing person or thing

Etymology: < ME fonne, a fool, foolish, or fonnen, to be foolish < ?

adjective

Informal intended for, or giving, pleasure or amusement a fun gift

intransitive verb funned, fun′·ning

Informal to have or make fun; play or joke

Etymology: < funthe

fun Idioms

for fun

or in fun

just for amusement; not seriously

like fun!

Slang by no means!not at all!: used to express emphatic negation or doubt

make fun of

to mock laughingly; ridicule

fun* Synonyms

fun*

modif.

merry, enjoyable, amusing; see entertaining, happy 1, pleasant 2.

fun Synonyms

fun

n.

play, game, sport, jest, amusement, relaxation, pastime, diversion, frolic, mirth, entertainment, recreation, solace, merriment, jollity, jollification, pleasure, good time, drollery, buffoonery, foolery, fooling, romping, joke, absurdity, playfulness, laughter, frolicsomeness, festivity, carnival, tomfoolery, escapade, antic, romp, gambol, prank, lark, comedy, banter, teasing, raillery, high jinks, celebration, holiday, rejoicing, good humor, joking, jocularity, enjoyment, gladness, good cheer, delight, glee, high glee, treat, hilarity, blitheness, joy, jocundity, joviality, time of one's life*, blast*, whoopee*, picnic*, riot*. *

Antonyms unhappiness*, tedium*, sorrow.

for<strong> or </strong>in fun

for amusement, not seriously, playfully, for no reason, for the fun of it, as a joke, for laughs, for kicks*; see also happily 2.

make fun of

mock, satirize, poke fun at; see ridicule.

fun Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • poke: Normally he wouldn't have been able to resist the urge to poke fun at Duncan's supposed credulity.
  • have: Nice ones dude, have fun in your vacation.
  • fill: The evening promises to be a fun filled night.
  • enjoy: Forget the seriousness of racing I enjoy the fun, and it is for anyone.
  • join: From festivals to golf to a modern-day cattle drive, join the fun!

Preposition: for

  • kid: It's cheeky, old-fashioned comedy that's great fun for kids.
  • everyone: I t is a joy to do, fun for everyone in singing, dancing and drama.

Adjective modifier

  • great: The filming in 2003 was great fun to watch.
  • much: Apart from main road cycling, which is not much fun, there is a variety of cycle routes here to satisfy most tastes.
  • festive: Clicky Play your cards right Those Labor gurus are a bundle of festive fun.
  • more: Near the left edge, there's nothing more fun than a brand new player to play with.
  • sheer: Never has a week been filled with so much hard work and so much sheer fun.
  • fantastic: For fans of legal trickery, it's fantastic fun.

Modifies a noun

  • stuff: Let's move on to the fun stuff, shall we?
  • game: Resident Evil 4 is a good, fun game.
  • activity: The week includes other fun activities to promote ' green ' living.
  • day: Outline A fun day of making for all the family.
  • fair: Today was a particularly good day because there was a mini fun fair set up there.
  • evening: It is a guaranteed fun evening with bargains galore.

Noun used with modifier

  • family: Children learned all the tricks of the circus trade at a family fun day.
fun Quotes

There's nothing surer, The rich get rich and the poor get children. In the meantime, in between time, Ain't we got fun.

—Kahn, Gus

My final word, before I'm done, Is 'Cancer can be rather fun'. Thanks to the nurses and Nye Bevan The NHS is quite like heaven Provided one confronts the tumour With a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt one till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts.

—Haldane,J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson)

I came to the conclusion that some more ascetic reason than mere enjoyment should be found if one wishes to travel in peace: to do things for fun smacks of levity, immoralityalmost, in our utilitarian world. And though personally I think the world is wrong, and I know in my heart of hearts that it is a most excellent reason to do things merely because one likes the doing of them, I would advise all those who wish to see unwrinkled brows in passport offices to start out ready labelled as entomologists, anthropologists, or whatever other - ology they think suitable and propitious.

—Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine

Don Francesco was a fisher of men, and of women. He fished ad maiorem Dei gloriam, and for the fun of the thing. It was his way of taking exercise.

—Douglas, (George) Norman

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themöcannot but deny them passionately.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

—Loos, Anita

'I don't know they're true,' he said.'I believe them because it's fun to believe them.'

—Bach, Richard

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An'now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o'the others The less will you settle for one;

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

   Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

—Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann

No se le hab|¤a ocurrido pensar hasta entonces que la literatura fuera el mejor juguete que se hab|¤a inventado para burlarse de la gente. It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

—Garc|¤  a Ma¤ r quez, Gabriel

AsTammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious: The piper loud and louder blew; The dancers quick and quicker flew.

—Burns, Robert

Iadmit it ismore funto puntthanto be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

—Sayers, Dorothy L(eigh)

That was the most fun I ever had without laughing.

—Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg

People must not do things for fun.We are not here for fun. There isno reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

—Herbert, SirA(lan) P(atrick)

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

—Hope, Bob originally LeslieTownes Hope

   But I'm dying now and done for, What on earth was all the fun for? I am ill and old and terrified and tight.

—Betjeman, SirJohn