fun, merriment, playfulness
(noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing; “I do it for the fun of it”; “he is fun to have around”
fun
(noun) violent and excited activity; “she asked for money and then the fun began”
playfulness, fun
(noun) a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement; “her playfulness surprised me”; “he was fun to be with”
fun, play, sport
(noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another’s expense but not to be taken seriously); “he became a figure of fun”; “he said it in sport”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fun (uncountable)
amusement, enjoyment or pleasure
playful, often noisy, activity.
• (enjoyment, amusement): amusement, diversion, enjoyment, a laugh, pleasure
• (playful, often noisy, activity): boisterousness, horseplay, rough and tumble
fun (comparative more fun or funner, superlative most fun)
(informal) enjoyable, amusing
(informal) whimsical, flamboyant
• Note that, prescriptively, the adjectival use of fun is often considered unacceptable in formal contexts. This includes censure of the comparative and superlative funner and funnest, but equally constructions such as very fun (rather than, say, a lot of fun). For more, see Quinion's discussion.
fun (third-person singular simple present funs, present participle funning, simple past and past participle funned)
(colloquial) To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.
• FNU, NFU, unf
Source: Wiktionary
Fun, n. Etym: [Perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. fonn pleasure.]
Definition: Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun." Goldsmith. To make fan of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
