Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Enjoyment; amusement.
- noun A source of enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure.
- intransitive verb To speak or act facetiously; joke or fool.
- intransitive verb To tease or speak playfully to.
- adjective Enjoyable; amusing.
- idiom (for/in) As a joke; playfully.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mirthful sport; frolicsome amusement; enjoyment from gay or comical action or speech.
- noun Mirthful wit or humor; sportive gaiety of speech or manner; drollery; whimsicality.
- To make fun; jest; joke: as, I was only funning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.
- noun to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective informal
enjoyable ,amusing . - adjective informal
whimsical ,flamboyant - noun
amusement ,enjoyment orpleasure . - noun
playful , oftennoisy ,activity . - verb colloquial To
tease ,kid ,poke fun at.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- noun violent and excited activity
- noun a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement
- noun activities that are enjoyable or amusing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word fun.
Examples
-
[I use the term fun as a paradigmatic construct as defined by Erving Durkheim, Emile Goffman and Charles Bronson which means, in theoretic terms, the whole enchilada.]
-
Trying to use the term fun to mean only pattern-learning when most people also use it to mean kinesthetic and other sensation-dependent enjoyment is just going to confuse people.
But Seriously Folks 2005
-
An organization called Citizens for the Preservation of Bay2Breakers is also fighting to keep what they call the "fun police" from ending their carnival.
San Francisco's New Race Rules: Run Naked, Not Drunk Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011
-
When iconic characters pass on their mantle, a big part of the fun is the redesign.
-
He gave what he called "fun facts" about the four generations of cellar masters who have harvested the product.
A Luxury 'Experience' With Louis XIII Marshall Heyman 2011
-
The new looks for Misty and Colleen are part of what makes this title fun, with Misty channeling Foxxy Cleopatra and Colleen doing the all-white ‘Kill Bill’ riff.
Heroes For Hire #9 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
-
After that, there are two more, which they call fun options.
Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us Emily Yellin 2009
-
Serkong Rinpoche's comment to me in Tibetan about this whole event was, "This is what they call fun?"
Introduction to Buddhist Sexual Ethics: Having Sex with Someone Else's Partner 2009
-
Serkong Rinpoche's comment to me in Tibetan about this whole event was, "This is what they call fun?"
Introduction to Buddhist Sexual Ethics: Having Sex with Someone Else's Partner 2009
-
No, all the growth and the opportunity and the fun is at the leading edge, at the place where change happens.
asativum commented on the word fun
I'm surprised no one has commented on just how odd this word is. Say it a few times: fun, fun, fun! Cheers one up and all, yes; fun, yes; but odd.
January 27, 2008
tbtabby commented on the word fun
F is for Friends who do stuff together
U is for You and me
N is for Anywhere, anytime at all
Down here in the deep blue sea
-Spongebob Squarepants
December 19, 2008
yarb commented on the word fun
I disagree with Asativum! Fun, fun, fun, thud, thud thud. This word is not at all fun, it's an unomatopoeia.
April 11, 2009
yarb commented on the word fun
"Now, I was sure Richard was funning me when he told me I was nice. He talks so much of my hair that I was afraid he thought little of the rest of me. I'm sure he told you that I'm plain. And I am. Am I not?"
- Rebecca West, The Judge
July 29, 2009
albertoprb commented on the word fun
low intensity
October 12, 2012