fun

Enjoyable or amusing.

Adjective

  1. Enjoyable or amusing.
    • We had a fun time at the party.
    • He is such a fun person to be with.
    • He's the liberated character that everyone wants to be, so he was very fun to play - 2016 January 11, Tom Bateman, quoted in Nigel Hunt, "Jekyll and Hyde, TV revamp of Robert Louis Stevenson classic, debuts on CBC-TV"...
  2. Whimsical or flamboyant.
    • This year's fashion style is much more fun than recent seasons.

Origin

From Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”) or fonnen (“make a fool of”), from Middle English fonne (“a fool, dupe”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish fånig (“foolish”), Swedish fåne (“a fool”), from Old Norse fáni (“vain person, swaggerer”), but of unknown ultimate origin. Perhaps related to or influenced by fjäll (“rock, cliff, mountain”). Compare also English fumble, Norwegian Nynorsk fomme (“clumsy fool”). Compare also Norwegian fomme, fume (“a fool”). More at fon, fond. As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”, from a verb fun meaning “to cheat, trick” (1680s). The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The older meaning is preserved in the phrase to make fun of (1737) and in usage of the adjective funny. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in...

Forms

more fun funner most fun funnest

Derived

fun fact fun fur fun money funner funnest funness funnish funpost no fun at parties superfun unfun you must be fun at parties

Noun

  1. Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure.
    • Grafting your boss's face onto the hind end of a donkey is fun, but serious fun is when you create the impossible and it looks real. - 2000, Robert Stanley, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop 6, Alpha Books,...

    Synonyms: amusement diversion enjoyment a laugh pleasure

  2. Playful, often noisy, activity.

    Synonyms: boisterousness horseplay rough and tumble

Derived

antifun unfun funalicious funless → funlessly funlessness funny funsies funsome funster funcle funemployed funemployment funfetti fungasm fungenda fungineer funishment funspirational funtastic funtivity fun and games funbags fun bags funboard

Verb

  1. To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.
    • Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.

Forms

funs funning funned

Related

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