FUNNY


Meaning of FUNNY in English

adj.

1 making you laugh

VERBS

▪ be , look , seem

▪ become , get

The movie gets funnier nearer the end.

▪ find sth

ADVERB

▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.

▪ brilliantly ( esp. BrE ), genuinely , hilariously , hysterically , incredibly , laugh-out-loud , outrageously , painfully ( esp. BrE ), riotously ( esp. BrE ), screamingly , side-splittingly , terribly , uproariously , wickedly , wildly , wonderfully

At last, a genuinely ~ comedy show!

His performance was hilariously ~.

You should have seen it—it was terribly ~!

▪ surprisingly

▪ almost

▪ mildly

▪ not remotely

He's not even remotely ~.

▪ unintentionally

▪ inherently

▪ darkly

2 strange

VERBS

▪ be , feel , look , seem , smell , sound , strike sb as , taste

Didn't it strike you as ~ that Adam wasn't there?

This wine tastes ~.

▪ find sth

Don't you find it a little ~ that she never mentions her husband?

ADVERB

▪ rather , very

Helen gave me a rather ~ look.

▪ a little , slightly , etc.

PHRASES

▪ ~ little

He's a ~ little man.

▪ ~ old

It's a ~ old world, isn't it?

Funny is used with these nouns: ↑ bloke , ↑ business , ↑ coincidence , ↑ face , ↑ feeling , ↑ gag , ↑ guy , ↑ idea , ↑ impression , ↑ joke , ↑ kind , ↑ look , ↑ moment , ↑ mood , ↑ movie , ↑ noise , ↑ parody , ↑ part , ↑ remark , ↑ satire , ↑ scene , ↑ show , ↑ smell , ↑ sort , ↑ story , ↑ tale , ↑ thing , ↑ trick , ↑ voice , ↑ walk , ↑ way

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .