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semifunny

semifunny is the alternative form of semi-funny.

Meaning of semi-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

Questions about semifunny

What is semifunny the alternative form of?
Semifunny is the alternative form of semi-funny.

Words near semifunny in the dictionary

  1. semifriend
  2. semifriends
  3. semifrozen
  4. semifunctional
  5. semifunctor
  6. semifunny
  7. semifused
  8. semifusinite
  9. semifusinites
  10. Semigallia
  11. semigelatinous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semifunny (page history and authors); semi-funny (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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