Synonyms for funnies
- banter
- crack
- fun
- funny
- gag
- game
- hoax
- jive
- jolly
- laugh
- one-liner
- play
- pleasantry
- prank
- quip
- rib
- ridicule
- sally
- spoof
- sport
- wisecrack
- witticism
- bon mot
- rib-tickler
Antonyms for funnies
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR FUNNIES
After that came a big dinner, and then a half hour spent with the funnies.
The Sunday supplement has few "funnies" and never any colored pictures.
Jimmie looked at the funnies, and Grandma and Rose-Ellen did the dishes.
Dozia was regarded "an awful joker" and she usually preferred the illustrated brand of funnies.
But I could and did improve the sports page, put in more home-stuff for the women, more society news, funnier 'funnies' and so on.
WORD ORIGIN
"humorous," 1756, from fun + -y (2). Meaning "strange, odd" is 1806, said to be originally U.S. Southern. The two senses of the word led to the retort question "funny ha-ha or funny peculiar," which is attested from 1916. Related: Funnier; funniest. Funny farm "mental hospital" is slang from 1962. Funny bone "elbow end of the humerus" is 1826; funnies "newspaper comic strips" is from 1852.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR FUNNIES
comedy
nounfunny entertainment- ball
- burlesque
- camp
- chaffing
- comic drama
- comicality
- comicalness
- drollery
- drollness
- facetiousness
- farce
- field day
- fun
- fun and games
- funnies
- funniness
- gag show
- grins
- high camp
- high time
- hilarity
- hoopla
- humor
- humorousness
- interlude
- jesting
- joking
- laughs
- light entertainment
- merry-go-round
- picnic
- play on
- satire
- schtick
- send-up
- sitcom
- slapstick
- takeoff
- travesty
- vaudeville
- wisecracking
- witticism
- wittiness
comic book
nounmagazine of cartoons- caricatures
- cartoons
- comic section
- comics
- funnies
- funny book
- funny magazine
- funny paper