Nouns (4)
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funny story, good story, funny remark, funny
n. an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny"
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Adjectives (6)
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funny
adj. experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest"
fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious
adj. not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"
Fuzzynyms (34)
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amusing, amusive, diverting
adj. providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining; "an amusing speaker"; "a diverting story"
absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous
adj. incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"
bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre
adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"
disreputable
adj. lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance
untrustworthy, untrusty
adj. not worthy of trust or belief; "an untrustworthy person"
furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious
adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"
improbable, unlikely
adj. not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred; "legislation on the question is highly unlikely"; "an improbable event"
dishonest, dishonorable
adj. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
Synonyms (44)
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witty
adj. combining clever conception and facetious expression; "his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent"
slapstick
adj. characterized by horseplay and physical action; "slapstick style of humor"
buffoonish, clownish, clownlike, zany
adj. like a clown; "a buffoonish walk"; "a clownish face"; "a zany sense of humor"
waggish
adj. witty or joking; "Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer"- James Fenimore Cooper
pawky
adj. cunning and sly; "the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants"- Punch
farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous
adj. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"
Gilbertian
adj. wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; "a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings"- T.C.Worsley
hilarious, screaming(a), uproarious
adj. marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories"
killing, sidesplitting
adj. very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics"
jesting, jocose, jocular, joking
adj. characterized by jokes and good humor
mirthful, merry
adj. arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"
seriocomic, seriocomical
adj. mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating; "a seriocomic novel"
tragicomic, tragicomical
adj. having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"--Joseph Conrad
alleged(a), so-called, supposed
adj. doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"
Apocryphal
adj. of or belonging to the Apocrypha
disputed, challenged, questioned
adj. subject to disagreement and debate
debatable, problematic, problematical
adj. open to doubt or debate; "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic"
doubtful, dubious, dubitable, in question(p)
adj. open to doubt or suspicion; "the candidate's doubtful past"; "he has a dubious record indeed"; "what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false"; "it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought"- Karen Horney
impugnable
adj. subject to being discredited
self-styled, soi-disant
adj. as claimed by and for yourself often without justification; "the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind"
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