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funnily

/ˈfʌnəli/

funnily adverb: in a funny or amusing manner.

Adverb

funnily (comparative more funnily, superlative most funnily)

  1. In a funny or amusing manner.
    • In this respect then, Gabriel's repetitive lyric of everyone playing: “games without frontiers and war without tears” was on the one hand quite funnily wrong. 'It's a Knockout' produced tears of laughter. […]2015 December 26, Victor Robert Farrell, Night-Whispers Vol 01-Q1-'Stirring Passions', Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 143
    Synonyms:
    amusingly
  2. In a strange or unexpected manner, especially of a coincidence.
    • Who, Bob? I just ran into him last week, funnily enough.
    • It hurts to swallow and to eat . . . sometimes, I find myself breathing funnily. The doctors have not found anything, even after the X-ray, but I feel that there is something physically wrong . . .1982, Stephen Murgatroyd, Ray Woolfe, quoting a rape victim, “Some Physical Reactions”, in Coping with Crisis: Understanding and Helping People in Need, London: Harper & Row, →ISBN, part 2 (Crises)...

funnily meaning in Malayalam

funnily in Malayalam

തമാശയായി, വിപരീതാർത്ഥത്തിൽ

Synonyms of funnily

Forms of funnily

comparativemore funnily
superlativemost funnily

Origin of funnily

From funny + -ly.

Questions about funnily

What does funnily mean?
Funnily means in a funny or amusing manner.
What is funnily in Malayalam?
Funnily in Malayalam is തമാശയായി, വിപരീതാർത്ഥത്തിൽ. See Funnily meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is funnily?
Funnily is an adverb.
How do you pronounce funnily?
Funnily is pronounced /ˈfʌnəli/.

Words near funnily in the dictionary

  1. funnier-looking
  2. funnies
  3. funniest
  4. funniest-looking
  5. funnification
  6. funnily
  7. funniment
  8. funniments
  9. funnin'
  10. funniness
  11. funninesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: funnily (page history and authors); funnily (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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