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funny-looking

funny-looking adjective: having a strange or unusual appearance.

Adjective

funny-looking (comparative funnier-looking or more funny-looking, superlative funniest-looking or most funny-looking)

  1. (derogatory, idiomatic, informal) Having a strange or unusual appearance.
    • Donaldson is not by any means one of God’s chosen entertainment-industry stars. He’s not especially handsome, and neither is he particularly funny-looking. At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a...2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025
  2. (derogatory, idiomatic, informal) Having a comical or humorous appearance.

Forms of funny-looking

comparativefunnier-looking
comparativemore funny-looking
superlativefunniest-looking
superlativemost funny-looking

Origin of funny-looking

From funny + looking. First use appears c. 1807. See citations page.

Questions about funny-looking

What does funny-looking mean?
Funny-looking means having a strange or unusual appearance.
What part of speech is funny-looking?
Funny-looking is an adjective.

Words near funny-looking in the dictionary

  1. funny stuff
  2. funny that
  3. funny-ha ha
  4. funny-haha
  5. funny-ish
  6. funny-looking
  7. funny/ha ha
  8. funny/haha
  9. funnybone
  10. funnybones
  11. FunnyBunny

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