Definitions for fun

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Spelling: [fuhn]

IPA: /fʌn/

Fun is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 8 anagrams from letters in fun (fnu).

Definitions for fun

noun

1. something that provides mirth or amusement:
2. enjoyment or playfulness:

Idioms

1. for / in fun, as a joke; not seriously; playfully:
2. like fun, Informal. certainly not; of doubtful truth:
3. make fun of, to make the object of ridicule; deride:

adjective

1. Informal. of or relating to fun, especially to social fun:
2. Informal. whimsical; flamboyant:

verb (used with or without object)

1. Informal. joke; kid.

Origin of fun

1675-85; dialectal variant of obsolete fon to befool. See fond¹

Examples for fun

The fun and the excitement of the game are more than the game.

Anyway, he said, Jim had already sure-enough drowned as fur as there was any fun in it.

So while you were having your fun there I was having mine here, and I had it good and plenty.

There's more where it came from, and no end of fun going after it.

It was fearless and raunchy and fun and ridiculous and weird and feminist and powerful.

But quite unlike the schmuck, and this is the fun part, they never run up the white flag; indeed quite the opposite.

It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.

And that's why I'm outlastin' a lot of the boys and still gettin' my fun out of the game.

But the fun starts when conservatives stop playing defense and go on offense.

In both of these latter cases, their eyes show more focus than fun, like tonight is a job.