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| Main Entry: | fun |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good, happy |
| Synonyms: | amusing, boisterous, convivial, enjoyable, entertaining, lively, merry, pleasant, witty, diverting |
| Antonyms: | bad, sad, unhappy, woeful, unfun |
| Main Entry: | fun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, play |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, ball*, big time*, blast*, celebration, cheer, distraction, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, escapade, festivity, frolic, gaiety, gambol, game*, high jinks, holiday, horseplay*, jesting, joke, joking, jollity, joy, laughter, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, nonsense, pastime, picnic*, pleasure, recreation, rejoicing, relaxation, riot, romp, solace, sport, tomfoolery*, treat, buffoonery, clowning, foolery, good time, grins, jocularity, junketing, living it up, playfulness, romping, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | sadness, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amusing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | entertaining, funny |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, camp, charming, cheerful, cheering, comical, cut up*, delightful, droll, enchanting, engaging, enjoyable, entertaining, fun, gratifying, humorous, interesting, jocular, laughable, lively, merry, pleasant, pleasing, priceless, sidesplitting*, witty, boffo, campy, diverting, for grins, gladdening, gut-busting, jokey, joshing, screaming, too funny for words |
| Antonyms: | annoying, boring, tiring, unfunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | banter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | teasing |
| Synonyms: | badinage, chaff, chitchat, derision, exchange, fun, gossip, jeering, jesting, joking, mockery, persiflage, play, raillery, repartee, ridicule, small talk, chaffing, dissing, joshing, kidding, ribbing |
| Main Entry: | banter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tease |
| Synonyms: | chaff, deride, fool, fun, jeer, jest, joke, josh, kid, make fun of, mock, rag*, razz*, rib, ridicule, satirize, taunt, jive* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chaff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | joke, ridicule |
| Synonyms: | banter, deride, fun, jeer, jolly, josh, kid, mock, rag*, rally, razz*, rib*, scoff, taunt, tease |
| Notes: | to chafe means to rub until sore or worn; to chaff means to tease good-naturedly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comedy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny entertainment |
| Synonyms: | ball*, burlesque, camp, drollery, farce, fun, high time, hilarity, hoopla, humor, interlude, jesting, joking, picnic, satire, slapstick, takeoff, travesty, vaudeville, witticism, chaffing, comic drama, comicality, comicalness, drollness, facetiousness, field day, fun and games, funnies, funniness, gag show, grins, high camp, humorousness, laughs, light entertainment, merry-go-round, play on, schtick, send-up, sitcom, wisecracking, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | tragedy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enjoyable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleasing; to one's liking |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, amusing, delectable, delicious, delightful, entertaining, fun, genial, gratifying, groovy*, likable, pleasant, pleasurable, preferable, satisfying, welcome, clear sailing, just for grins, just for kicks, just for laughs, just for the heck of it, lots of laughs, relishable |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, unhappy, unpleasant, displeasing, unenjoyable, unsatisfying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entertaining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amusing, pleasing |
| Synonyms: | absorbing, affecting, charming, cheerful, cheering, clever, compelling, delightful, droll, enchanting, engaging, engrossing, enjoyable, entrancing, exciting, fascinating, fun, funny, gas*, gay, humorous, impressive, inspiring, interesting, lively, moving, piquant, pleasant, pleasurable, poignant, priceless, provocative, restorative, riot, rousing, scream, stimulating, stirring, striking, thrilling, witty, be a ball, captivating, diverting, enthralling, enticing, recreative, relaxing, side-splitting |
| Antonyms: | boring, dull, laborious, sad, tiring, unpleasant, unamusing, unfunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entertainment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, pleasure |
| Synonyms: | ball*, bash*, big time*, blast*, celebration, cheer, delight, dissipation, distraction, diversion, enjoyment, feast, frolic, fun, gaiety, game, high time*, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, picnic, play, recreation, relaxation, relief, revelry, satisfaction, shindig*, sport, spree, surprise, treat, blow out*, clambake, divertissement, fun and games, good time, grins, laughs, leisure activity, lots of laughs, regalement, wingding |
| Antonyms: | chore, drudgery, labor, task, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | festivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, revelry |
| Synonyms: | amusement, bash*, blowout*, carousal*, conviviality, do*, entertainment, festival, fun, gaiety, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, jamboree, jollity, levity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, party, pleasure, revel, shindig*, sport, clambake, fun and games, joviality, joyfulness, reveling, revelment, whoopee, wingding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frivolity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | silliness, childishness |
| Synonyms: | flightiness, flippancy, flirting, folly, frippery, fun, gaiety, game, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, sport, trifling, volatility, whimsy, coquetting, dallying, flummery, fribble, frivolousness, giddiness, puerility, shallowness, superficiality, toying, triviality, whimsicality |
| Antonyms: | sensibility, seriousness, wiseness |
| Main Entry: | frolic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, revel |
| Synonyms: | antic, drollery, escapade, fun, gaiety, gambol, game, high jinks, joke, lark, merriment, play, prank, romp, sport, spree, tomfoolery*, trick, fun and games, joviality, monkeyshines, shenanigan, skylarking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frolicsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful |
| Synonyms: | antic, frisky, fun, gay, gleeful, happy, impish, jocular, jovial, kittenish, lively, merry, mischievous, roguish, rollicking, sportive, sprightly, coltish, gamesome |
| Antonyms: | serious, staid, stiff |
| Main Entry: | gaiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness, celebration |
| Synonyms: | animation, brightness, cheer, color, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor*, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, radiance, revel, revelry, shindig*, sparkle, sport, vivacity, blitheness, brilliance, colorfulness, grins, high spirits, joviality, joyousness, pleasantness, reveling, showiness, sprightliness, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, solemnity, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gimmick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contrived object; scheme |
| Synonyms: | aid, apparatus, artifice, catch, concern, counterfeit, deceit, device, dodge*, fake, feint, fixture, fun, gadget, gambit, game, gizmo*, imposture, instrument, jest, maneuver, means, method, ploy, ruse, secret, shift, sport, stratagem, stunt, trick, widget*, wile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme happiness |
| Synonyms: | cheerfulness, delight, elation, enjoyment, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, fun, gaiety, gladness, hilarity, jollity, joy, liveliness, merriment, mirth, pleasure, triumph, verve, blitheness, delectation, jocularity, joviality, joyfulness, joyousness, sprightliness |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | gregarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
| Synonyms: | affable, companionable, convivial, cordial, fun, outgoing, sociable, social, clubby |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, introverted, unfriendly, unsociable, unhospitable |
| Main Entry: | hilarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laughter |
| Synonyms: | amusement, cheerfulness, entertainment, fun, merriment, mirthfulness |
| Main Entry: | hobby |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasurable pastime |
| Synonyms: | amusement, art, avocation, bag*, craft, craze, distraction, diversion, fad*, fancy, fun, game, interest, kick*, labor of love*, obsession, occupation, play, quest, relaxation, shot, sideline, specialty, sport, thing*, vagary, weakness, whim, whimsy, divertissement, favorite occupation, leisure activity, leisure pursuit, pet topic, schtick |
| Antonyms: | profession, vocation, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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