To save this word, you’ll need to log in. Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Funny gifts for him for valentines day, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Causing laughter or amusement: a funny cartoon.

Making or given to making amusing jokes or witticisms: a colleague who is very funny. Used in negative sentences to express disapproval or to emphasize the seriousness of something: There is nothing funny about getting the flu. I had a funny feeling that she would call. Suspiciously odd: It’s funny how I seem to lose something every time he comes around. Counterfeit or fraudulent: tried to pass off funny money as legitimate. Informal Somewhat ill, painful, or abnormal: I felt funny after eating those clams.

Offensively forward or disrespectful: She told him off after he started to get funny. Contrary to one’s demands or expectations: Don’t let the prisoners do anything funny. The section of a newspaper containing comic strips. Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

There was something funny about those extra charges. Don’t get funny with me, mister. Her speech has a funny twang. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. When people or things seem amusing or absurd, you can describe them as comical. There is something slightly comical about him.

Comic is used to describe things that are intended to make you laugh. He is a great comic actor. The novel is both comic and tragic. Don’t use ‘comical’ to describe things that are intended to make you laugh. The word that you usually use to describe someone or something that makes you laugh is funny.