funnier

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comical, humorous adj.
odd, peculiar adj.

ADJECTIVE

comical, humorous

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absurd amusing droll entertaining hilarious ludicrous playful ridiculous silly whimsical

STRONG

antic gas gay humdinger jolly killing rich riot screaming slapstick

WEAK

blithe capricious clever diverting facetious farcical for grins gelastic good-humored hysterical jocose jocular joking knee-slapper laughable merry mirthful priceless riotous risible side-splitting sportive waggish witty

Antonyms

STRONGEST

boring logical reasonable sensible serious tiring unfunny wise

STRONG

sad unhappy

WEAK

common dramatic melancholy normal standard tragic unamusing usual

ADJECTIVE

odd, peculiar

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bizarre curious mysterious strange unusual weird

WEAK

dubious fantastic perplexing puzzling remarkable suspicious

Antonyms

STRONGEST

common familiar normal regular standard usual

WEAK

dramatic melancholy sad serious tragic unamusing unfunny

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funnier

How much funnier Shakespeare’s motley crew can be when we’re allowed to discover the variety of eccentricity and ludicrousness on display for ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Here Ms. Howden displays an instinctive wisdom of her own; sometimes, silence is funnier than anything you could say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Elsewhere in his interview, McSweeney said he found Donald Trump "much funnier than I expected him to be".

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

If you have watched any of these — if they comforted you on your worst days and made good ones better — Burrows had a hand in making your life funnier.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

It would probably surprise us more, and be an even funnier story, if the mice in the cockpit had upset Aleksandr Gridnev rather than Zhenya Prokhorova.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein