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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Attic, abnormal, absurd, amusing, anomalous, antic, biting, bizarre, brilliant, clever, comic, comical, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, curious, deviant, deviative, different, divergent, diverting, dotty, droll, eccentric, entertaining, erratic, exceptional, facetious, fantastic, farcical, fey, flaky, freaked out, freakish, freaky, grotesque, hilarious, humorous, humorsome, hysterical, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, incongruous, irregular, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, kinky, kooky, laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, merry, mordant, mysterious, mystifying, nimble-witted, nutty, odd, oddball, off, off the wall, out, outlandish, passing strange, peculiar, pointed, priceless, pungent, puzzling, quaint, queer, quick-witted, quirky, quizzical, rapier-like, remarkable, rich, ridiculous, risible, salt, salty, scintillating, screaming, screwball, screwy, sharp, singular, slapstick, smart, sparkling, sprightly, strange, twisted, unconventional, unearthly, unnatural, unusual, uproarious, wacky, waggish, weird, whimsical, witty, wondrous strange, zany

Dictionary Results for funny:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

funny
    adj 1: 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" [syn: amusing, comic, comical, funny,
           laughable, mirthful, risible]
    2: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious
       hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have
       some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar
       aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about
       this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn:
       curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum,
       rummy, singular]
    3: 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" [syn: fishy, funny, shady,
       suspect, suspicious]
    4: experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about
       the funny sensations in her chest"
    n 1: an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch
         line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny" [syn:
         funny story, good story, funny remark, funny]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Funny \Fun"ny\, a. [Compar. Funnier; superl. Funniest.]
   [From Fun.]
   Droll; comical; amusing; laughable; inciting laughter.
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   Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Funny \Fun"ny\, n.; pl. Funnies.
   A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]
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