fun

UK /fʌn/ US /fʌn/

noun 2adj 2verb 1

Definitions

noun

Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure.

Grafting your boss's face onto the hind end of a donkey is fun, but serious fun is when you create the impossible and it looks real.

Playful, often noisy, activity.

adj

Enjoyable or amusing.

We had a fun time at the party.

He is such a fun person to be with.

Whimsical or flamboyant.

This year's fashion style is much more fun than recent seasons.

verb

To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.

Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

enormous, excellent, good, great, terrific, tremendous, wonderful

harmless, innocent

We thought it was innocent fun to play a prank on our teacher.

VERB + FUN

have

The children had so much fun playing in the park yesterday afternoon.

spoil

Don't let your argument with your friend spoil the fun at the party tonight.

FUN + NOUN

day

The school held a fun day last week where students played games and won prizes.

PREP

for ~

My children play soccer for fun on weekends, even though they're not on a team.

in ~

We were just joking around in fun, so nobody got upset by our silly comments.

PHRASES

be no fun

Waiting in a long queue at the airport is no fun.

a bit of fun

The kids were playing in the park just for a bit of fun after school.

just for fun, just for the fun of it

My friends and I learned to cook Thai food just for fun on Saturday afternoons.

a sense of fun

My grandmother always brought a sense of fun to family dinners, even when things got chaotic.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — activities that are enjoyable or amusing

merriment
playfulness

noun — a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement

playfulness

noun — verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

make fun of

To tease, ridicule or make jokes about, generally in a pejorative manner.

Please stop making fun of your sister and just help her!

time flies when you're having fun

Time seems to pass more quickly when one is enjoying oneself.

"Time flies when you're having fun!" said one of the skiers in our party. "Yeah, but time's more fun when you're flying," Jay one-upped.

fun and games

Recreation; nothing serious; easy, enjoyable activities.

Being a film director isn't all fun and games.

have fun

Used to wish somebody a good and enjoyable time when they are about to do something.

it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye

Rough play results in injury.

Example Bank

Grafting your boss's face onto the hind end of a donkey is fun, but serious fun is when you create the impossible and it looks real.

Wiktionary

We had a fun time at the party.

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He is such a fun person to be with.

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He's the liberated character that everyone wants to be, so he was very fun to play

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Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.

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It would be fun to see how things change over the years.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, fun is marked as informal, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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