fun
UK/fʌn/
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Ireland/fʊn/
fun noun: amusement, enjoyment or pleasure.
Noun
fun (uncountable)
- 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.2000, Robert Stanley, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop 6, Alpha Books, page 377
- Playful, often noisy, activity.
- Synonyms:
- boisterousness, horseplay, rough and tumble
Adjective
fun (comparative more fun or (informal) funner, superlative most fun or (informal) funnest)
- 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
fun (third-person singular simple present funs, present participle funning, simple past and past participle funned)
- To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.
- Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.
fun meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fun in Hindi
- enjoyment or amusement
- मज़ा mazā
fun in Tamil
- enjoyment or amusement
- வேடிக்கை vēṭikkai, மஜா majā, உல்லாசம் ullācam, ஜாலி jāli
fun in Marathi
- fun, joy, enjoyment, merriment
- मजा majā
- fun, enjoyment, revel, merriment
- मौज mauj
- fun
- गंमत gammat
fun in Urdu
- enjoyment or amusement
- مزہ mazā
More languagesFewer languages
- fun in Bengali
- মজা moja, ফুর্তি phurti, মজার mojar
- fun in Telugu
- గొల్లి golli
- fun in Malayalam
- കളി
- fun in Kannada
- ಉಪಹಾಸ, ಖುಷಿ, ತಮಾಷೆ, ಪರಿಹಾಸ
- fun in Punjabi
- ਤਮਾਸ਼ਾ tamāśā
- fun in Gujarati
- મજાક majāk
- fun in Sanskrit
- परिहास parihāsa, हास्य hāsya
- fun in Assamese
- ধেমালি dhemali, উলাহ-বিলাহ ulah-bilah, আমোদ amüd
- fun in Nepali
- मज्जा majjā
- fun in Tagalog
- saya, masaya
- fun in Arabic
- مَرَح maraḥ, تَرْفِيه tarfīh, تَسْلِيَة tasliya, مَرِح mariḥ
- fun in Malay
- seronok, menyeronokkan
- fun in Persian
- سرگرمی sargarmi
- fun in Thai
- ความสนุก kwaam-sà-nùk, สนุก sà-nùk, มันส์ man
Examples of fun in a sentence
- You're fun to spend time with, but I'm not that into you.
- Well, if you didn't catch this time, we'll have more fun trying again until you do.
- He paid for his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.
Synonyms of fun
Forms of fun
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more fun |
| superlative | most fun |
| comparative (informal) | funner |
| superlative (informal) | funnest |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | funs |
| present participle | funning |
| past participle | funned |
| past | funned |
Origin of fun
From Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”) or fonnen (“make a fool of”), from Middle English fonne (“a fool, dupe”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish fånig (“foolish”), Swedish fåne (“a fool”), from Old Norse fáni (“vain person, swaggerer”), but of unknown ultimate origin. Perhaps related to or influenced by fjäll (“rock, cliff, mountain”). Compare also English fumble, Norwegian Nynorsk fomme (“clumsy fool”). Compare also Norwegian fomme, fume (“a fool”). More at fon, fond. As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”, from a verb fun meaning “to cheat, trick” (1680s). The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The older meaning is preserved in the phrase to make fun of (1737) and in usage of the adjective funny. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in the mid-19th century. Alternative etymology connected Middle English fonne with Old Frisian fonna, fone, fomne, variant forms of fāmne, fēmne (“young woman, virgin”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimnijā, from Proto-Germanic *faimnijǭ (“maiden”), from Proto-Indo-European *peymen- (“girl”), *poymen-...
Words formed from fun
- antifun
- unfun
- funalicious
- funless → funlessly
- funlessness
- funny
- funsies
- funsome
- funster
- funcle
- funemployed
- funemployment
- funfetti
- fungasm
- fungenda
- fungineer
- funishment
- funspirational
- funtabulous
- funtastic
- funtivity
- fun and games
- funbags
- fun bags
- funboard
- funbox
- fun day
- funfair
- funfest
- funfilled
- funhouse
- fun house
- fun lover
- fun-lover
- fun-loving
- funmaker
- fun-maker
- fun on a bun
- fun in a bun
- fun pack
- fun park
- funplex
- fun police
- fun run
- fun runner
- fun running
- fun size
- fun-size
- fun-sized
- fun sponge
- barrel of fun
- every good boy deserves fun
- figure of fun
- for fun
- for the fun of it
- just for fun
- fun fund
- fun up
- good fun
- great fun
Phrases with fun
- no fun
- fun bag
- fun fur
- had fun
- has fun
- mai fun
- fun days
- fun fact
- fun fair
- fun furs
- fun runs
- have fun
39 more phrasesFewer phrases
- like fun
- look fun
- poke fun
- fun facts
- fun funds
- fun money
- fun packs
- fun parks
- poked fun
- pokes fun
- cheung fun
- fun houses
- fun lovers
- having fun
- poking fun
- type 1 fun
- type 2 fun
- type 3 fun
- type I fun
- fun sponges
- made fun of
- make fun of
- No Fun City
- type II fun
- fun in games
- makes fun of
- type III fun
- making fun of
- figures of fun
- poke one's fun
- chee cheong fun
- poked one's fun
- pokes one's fun
- poking one's fun
- no fun at parties
- you must be fun at parties
- have fun with Dick and Jane
- time flies when you're having fun
- it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye
Words that rhyme with fun
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- rerun
- stun
- nun
- shun
- 'un
- Gunn
- jump the gun
- none
- outrun
- overdone
- begun
- dun
- hon
- pun
- speedrun
- thon
- undone
- unspun
- verdun
- winter sun
- 1
- 101
- 26+6=1
- cun
- dun dun dun
- everyone
- hard-won
- have one's mind about one
- hot cross bun
- marble run
- misdone
- mun
- Munn
- old one
- one hundred and one
- one thousand and one
- organ gun
- outdone
- outgun
- over and done
- quaker gun
- redone
- respun
- rewon
- snatch and run
- spun
- steam gun
- temperature gun
Questions about fun
- What does fun mean?
- Fun means amusement, enjoyment or pleasure.
- What is fun in Hindi?
- Fun in Hindi is मज़ा (mazā). See Fun meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fun?
- Fun can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fun?
- Fun is pronounced /fʌn/ (UK).
Words near fun in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fun (page history and authors); गंमत (Marathi) (page history and authors); గొల్లి (Telugu) (page history and authors); fun (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fun (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਤਮਾਸ਼ਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); મજાક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); परिहास (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); मज्जा (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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