Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
You refer to an activity or situation as ~ if you think it is pleasant and enjoyable and it causes you to feel happy.
It was such a success and we had so much ~ doing it...
It could be ~ to watch them...
You still have time to join in the ~.
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2.
If you say that someone is ~, you mean that you enjoy being with them because they say and do interesting or amusing things.
Liz was wonderful ~ to be with.
N-UNCOUNT approval
3.
If you describe something as a ~ thing, you mean that you think it is enjoyable. If you describe someone as a ~ person, you mean that you enjoy being with them. (INFORMAL)
It was a ~ evening...
What a ~ person he is!
= entertaining
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
Someone who is a figure of ~ is considered ridiculous, so that people laugh at them or make jokes about them.
PHRASE: figure inflects, v-link PHR
5.
If you do something for ~ or for the ~ of it, you do it in order to enjoy yourself rather than because it is important or necessary.
I took my M. A. just for ~ really...
He had just come for the ~ of it.
PHRASE: PHR after v
6.
If you do something in ~, you do it as a joke or for amusement, without intending to cause any harm.
Don’t say such things, even in ~.
PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR
7.
If you make ~ of someone or something or poke ~ at them, you laugh at them, tease them, or make jokes about them in a way that causes them to seem ridiculous.
Don’t make ~ of me...
She poked ~ at people’s shortcomings.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n