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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, funning 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
also poke fun at

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fun Synonyms

fun*

modif.

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


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.


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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.

Preposition: for

  • kid: It's cheeky, old-fashioned comedy that's great fun for kids.

Adjective modifier

  • great: The filming in 2003 was great fun to watch.

Modifies a noun

  • stuff: Let's move on to the fun stuff, shall we?

Noun used with modifier

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

That was the most fun I ever had without laughing.

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg

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

-Bach, Richard

   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

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