fun

(fŭn)

1. Enjoyment; amusement: We had fun at the beach.

2. A source of enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure: Was the party fun?

v. funned, fun·ning, funs Informal

v.intr.

To speak or act facetiously; joke or fool.

v.tr.

To tease or speak playfully to.

adj. Informal

Enjoyable; amusing: "You're a real fun guy" (Margaret Truman).

Idiom:

for/in fun

As a joke; playfully.

[Possibly from fon, to make a fool of, from Middle English fonnen, to fool, possibly from fonne, fool.]

Usage Note: The use of fun as an adjective probably originated when people heard the noun in sentences like Skiing is fun and interpreted it as a predicate adjective along the lines of Skiing is enjoyable. From there it was a short step to using fun attributively to modify a noun, as in a fun time or a fun place. This usage has become widespread and must be considered standard; in our 2015 survey, the sentence We went to a fun party was judged acceptable by 84 percent of the Usage Panel. The inflection of the adjective (as funner, funnest) is another matter. Although the inflected forms have been in use since the 1950s, they are almost never found in edited prose aside from direct quotations, usually of children. In our survey, funner and funnest were rated as unacceptable by 88 percent and 80 percent of the Panelists, respectively, and most of the remainder rated them as merely "somewhat acceptable."

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fun

(fʌn)

1. a source of enjoyment, amusement, diversion, etc

2. pleasure, gaiety, or merriment

3. jest or sport (esp in the phrases in or for fun)

4. fun and games facetious ironic amusement; frivolous activity

5. like fun informal

a. (adverb) quickly; vigorously

b. (interjection) not at all! certainly not!

6. make fun of poke fun at to ridicule or deride

7. (modifier) full of amusement, diversion, gaiety, etc: a fun sport.

vb, funs, funning or funned

(intr) informal to act in a joking or sporting manner

[C17: perhaps from obsolete fon to make a fool of; see fond¹]

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fun

(fʌn)

n., v. funned, fun•ning, n.

1. something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.

2. enjoyment or playfulness: She's full of fun.

v.i., v.t.

3. Informal. to joke; kid.

adj.

4. Informal. providing pleasure or amusement; enjoyable: a fun thing to do; really a fun person.

Idioms:

1. for or in fun, as a joke; not seriously; playfully.

2. like fun, Informal. certainly not; by no means: Pay you double? Like fun!

3. make fun of, to make the object of ridicule; deride.

[1675–85; dial. variant of obsolete fon]

fun

– funny

1. 'fun'

If something is fun, it is pleasant, enjoyable, and not serious.

It's fun working for him.

If you have fun, you enjoy yourself.

We had great fun at the party.

She wanted a bit more fun out of life.

Be Careful!
Fun is an uncountable noun. Don't say that someone 'has funs' or 'has a great fun'.

If you want to say that something is very enjoyable, you can say that it is great fun or a lot of fun.

The game was great fun.

In conversation and informal writing, you can use fun as an adjective. Don't use fun in this way in formal writing.

It was a fun evening.

She's a really fun person to be around.

2. 'funny'

If something is funny, it is amusing and makes you smile or laugh.

She told funny stories.

Wayne could be very funny when he wanted to.

You can also say that something is funny when it is strange, surprising, or puzzling.

The funny thing is, we went to Arthur's house just yesterday.

Have you noticed anything funny about this plane?

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fun

Past participle: funned
Gerund: funning

Imperative
fun
fun

Present
I fun
you fun
he/she/it funs
we fun
you fun
they fun

Preterite
I funned
you funned
he/she/it funned
we funned
you funned
they funned

Present Continuous
I am funning
you are funning
he/she/it is funning
we are funning
you are funning
they are funning

Present Perfect
I have funned
you have funned
he/she/it has funned
we have funned
you have funned
they have funned

Past Continuous
I was funning
you were funning
he/she/it was funning
we were funning
you were funning
they were funning

Past Perfect
I had funned
you had funned
he/she/it had funned
we had funned
you had funned
they had funned

Future
I will fun
you will fun
he/she/it will fun
we will fun
you will fun
they will fun

Future Perfect
I will have funned
you will have funned
he/she/it will have funned
we will have funned
you will have funned
they will have funned

Future Continuous
I will be funning
you will be funning
he/she/it will be funning
we will be funning
you will be funning
they will be funning

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been funning
you have been funning
he/she/it has been funning
we have been funning
you have been funning
they have been funning

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been funning
you will have been funning
he/she/it will have been funning
we will have been funning
you will have been funning
they will have been funning

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been funning
you had been funning
he/she/it had been funning
we had been funning
you had been funning
they had been funning

Conditional
I would fun
you would fun
he/she/it would fun
we would fun
you would fun
they would fun

Past Conditional
I would have funned
you would have funned
he/she/it would have funned
we would have funned
you would have funned
they would have funned

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	fun - activities that are enjoyable or amusing; "I do it for the fun of it"; "he is fun to have around" merriment, playfulness diversion, recreation - an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation"
	2.	fun - verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport" sport, play humor, wit, witticism, wittiness, humour - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter jocosity, jocularity - fun characterized by humor waggery, waggishness - waggish behavior drollery, funniness, clowning, comedy - a comic incident or series of incidents paronomasia, pun, punning, wordplay - a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
	3.	fun - violent and excited activity; "she asked for money and then the fun began"; "they began to fight like fun" activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
	4.	fun - a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement; "her playfulness surprised me"; "he was fun to be with" playfulness frivolity, frivolousness - the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible facetiousness - playful humor archness, pertness, sauciness, perkiness, impertinence - inappropriate playfulness friskiness, frolicsomeness, sportiveness - lively high-spirited playfulness impishness, puckishness, whimsicality, mischievousness - the trait of behaving like an imp sense of humor, sense of humour, humor, humour - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"

fun

noun

1. amusement, sport, treat, pleasure, entertainment, cheer, good time, recreation, enjoyment, romp, distraction, diversion, frolic, junketing, merriment, whoopee (informal), high jinks, living it up, jollity, beer and skittles (informal), merrymaking, jollification You still have time to join in the fun.

2. joking, clowning, merriment, playfulness, play, game, sport, nonsense, teasing, jesting, skylarking (informal), horseplay, buffoonery, tomfoolery, jocularity, foolery There was lots of fun going on last night.

3. enjoyment, pleasure, joy, cheer, mirth, gaiety She had a great sense of fun.
enjoyment depression, distress, despair, grief, misery, gloom, sadness, sorrow, woe, melancholy, unhappiness, desolation

adjective

1. enjoyable, entertaining, pleasant, amusing, lively, diverting, witty, convivial It was a fun evening.

for or in fun for a joke, tongue in cheek, jokingly, playfully, for a laugh, mischievously, in jest, teasingly, with a straight face, facetiously, light-heartedly, roguishly, with a gleam or twinkle in your eye Don't say such things, even in fun.

fun and games horseplay, clowning, romping, pranks, fooling around, rough-and-tumble, junketing, revelry, skylarking (informal), high jinks, jollity, buffoonery, merrymaking Their fun and games hurt a lot of people.

make fun of something or someone mock, tease, ridicule, poke fun at, take off, rag, rib (informal), laugh at, taunt, mimic, parody, deride, send up (Brit. informal), scoff at, sneer at, lampoon, make a fool of, pour scorn on, take the mickey out of (Brit. informal), take the piss out of (taboo slang), satirize, pull someone's leg, hold up to ridicule, make a monkey of, make sport of, make the butt of, make game of Don't make fun of me!

Quotations
"That [sex] was the most fun I've ever had without laughing" [Woody Allen Annie Hall]

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

fun

noun

1. Joyful, exuberant activity:

2. Activity engaged in for relaxation and amusement:

3. Actions taken as a joke:

verb

Informal. To make jokes; behave playfully:

Translations

zábavazábavný

sjovmorskab

hauskahuvi

zabavazabavan

skemmtun, gaman

楽しい楽しみ

재미재미있는

juokaijuokaisjuokaujantlinksmybėpajuokti

izpriecajautrība

distracţiedistractiv

heczabava

nöjerolig

ความสนุกน่าสนุก

sự vui vẻvui vẻ

fun

n (= amusement) → Spaß m, (Aus also) → Spass m; to have great fun doing something → viel Spaß daran haben, etw zu tun, viel Spaß an etw (dat) → haben; in fun (= as a joke) → im or als Scherz; this is fun! → das macht Spaß or Freude!; I’m not doing it for the fun of it → ich mache das nicht zu meinem Vergnügen; we just did it for fun → wir haben das nur aus or zum Spaß gemacht; to spoil the fun → den Spaß verderben; that takes all the fun out of it → das nimmt einem den Spaß or die Freude daran; it’s fun doing this/being with him → es macht Spaß, das zu tun/mit ihm zusammen zu sein; it’s not much fun for the others though → es ist allerdings für die anderen nicht gerade ein Vergnügen; life’s not much fun sometimes → das Leben ist manchmal nicht gerade das reinste Vergnügen; it’s no fun living on your own/being broke → es macht nicht gerade Spaß, allein zu leben/pleite (inf) → zu sein; you’re no fun to be with any more → es macht keinen Spaß mehr, mit dir zusammen zu sein; he is great fun → man kriegt mit ihm viel Spaß or viel zu lachen (inf); the children thought he was great fun → die Kinder fanden ihn sehr lustig; the party was good fun → die Party hat viel Spaß gemacht; what fun! → was für ein Spaß!; that sounds like fun → das klingt gut; I wasn’t serious, I was just having a bit of fun → das hab ich nicht ernst gemeint, ich hab doch nur Spaß gemacht; the children had fun and games at the picnic → die Kinder haben beim Picknick viel Spaß gehabt; that should be fun and games (iro) → das kann ja (noch) heiter werden (inf); to make fun of or poke fun at somebody/something → sich über jdn/etw lustig machen; we had fun getting the car started (inf) → wir hatten ein bisschen Theater, ehe das Auto ansprang (inf); like fun (US inf) → (ja,) Pustekuchen! (inf)

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fun

(fan) noun

enjoyment; a good time. They had a lot of fun at the party; Isn't this fun!

ˈfunny adjective

1. amusing; making one laugh. a funny story.

2. strange; peculiar. I heard a funny noise.

ˈfunnily adverbfun and games

activities that are good fun. But I have to warn you, this job is not all fun and games!

for fun

as a joke; for amusement. The children threw stones for fun.

in fun

as a joke; not seriously. I said it in fun.

make fun of

to laugh at (someone, usually unkindly). They made fun of her.

fun

→ لَهْو, مُسَلٍ zábava, zábavný morskab, sjov lustig, Spaß διασκεδαστικός, κέφι diversión, divertido hauska, huvi amusant, amusement zabava, zabavan divertente, divertimento 楽しい, 楽しみ 재미, 재미있는 leuk, plezier moro, morsom zabawa, zabawny diversão, divertido веселье, забавный nöje, rolig ความสนุก, น่าสนุก eğlence, eğlendirici sự vui vẻ, vui vẻ 娱乐, 娱乐的

fun

n. diversión, entretenimiento;

to have ___ → divertirse, entretenerse.

fun

n diversión f; to have — divertirse