funnily

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/ˈfʌnəli/

adverb

In a funny or amusing manner.

“Who, Bob? I just ran into him last week, funnily enough.”

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

adverbfunnily (comparative more funnily, superlative most 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.

    1 more example

    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), chapter 10 (Rape), page 126

    Synonyms: funny, strangely, unexpectedly

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbIn a funny or amusing manner.

Similar

adverbIn a strange or unexpected manner, especially of a coincidence.

More synonyms by meaning

adverbin a strange manner

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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“funnily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/funnily. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “funnily,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/funnily.

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