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semi-funny

semi-funny adjective: partially funny.

Adjective

semi-funny (not comparable)

  1. Partially funny.
    • The speaker commenced by thrusting his head out of a sort of window on one side of the stage, and, having requested the audience not to believe a word he said or anything they saw, proceeded to make a great many semi-funny remarks, of which you could not hear one-half, and wished you couldn’t hear...1867 May 8, ““Metamorphoses.””, in The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review, volume V, number 699, page 3
    • There is a time, however, when a faint gleam of hope arises in the breast of the semi-funny newspaper man, and that is election time.1874 November 8, The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume 28, number 77, Chicago, Ill., page 10

Forms of semi-funny

alternative formsemifunny

Origin of semi-funny

From semi- + funny.

Questions about semi-funny

What does semi-funny mean?
Semi-funny means partially funny.
What part of speech is semi-funny?
Semi-funny is an adjective.

Words near semi-funny in the dictionary

  1. semi-finalists
  2. semi-finals
  3. semi-finished
  4. semi-flush
  5. semi-Fowler's
  6. semi-funny
  7. semi-glazed
  8. semi-hard
  9. semi-harmonic
  10. semi-harmonics
  11. semi-heavy water

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