funnily

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈfʌnəli/

Definition of funnily

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  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. […]”
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adv

  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. […]”
  2. In a strange or unexpected manner, especially of a coincidence.
    “Who, Bob? I just ran into him last week, funnily enough.”
    “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 . . .”

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Etymology

From funny + -ly.

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