Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
fun (noun)1.
what provides amusement or enjoyment , specifically playful often boisterous action or speech - full of fun
2.
a mood for finding or making amusement - all in fun
3.
a) - amusement enjoyment sickness takes all the fun out of life
b) derisive jest - sport ridicule a figure of fun
4.
violent or excited activity or argument
intransitive verb
to indulge in banter or play - joke
1.
providing entertainment, amusement, or enjoyment - a fun party a fun person to be with
2.
full of fun - pleasant have a fun time
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
fun (adjective)providing amusement or enjoyment
SYNONIMS:
amusing, delightful, diverting, enjoyable, entertaining, pleasurableRELATED WORDS:
agreeable, beguiling, nice, pleasant, satisfying, welcome; recreational; antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, sidesplitting, uproarious; blithesome, gay, gleeful, happy, jocose, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, sunny; exciting, stimulating, thrillingNEAR ANTONYMS:
disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, uncongenial, unlovely, unpleasant, unpleasing, unwelcome1.
someone or something that provides amusement or enjoyment
SYNONIMS:
delight, distraction, diversion, divertissement, entertainment, pleasure, recreationRELATED WORDS:
escape, pastime, time killer; binge, fling, frolic, gambol, lark, revel, rollick, romp, spree; frolicking, rollicking; carousing, conviviality, festivity, gaiety ( gayety), hilarity, jollification, jollity, merrymaking, reveling ( revelling), revelry, whoopee; picnic; laugh, riot, scream; activity, gameNEAR ANTONYMS:
killjoy, party pooper2.
an attitude or manner not to be taken seriously
SYNONIMS:
game, jest, play, sportRELATED WORDS:
facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, frothiness, levity, light-mindedness, sillinessNEAR ANTONYMS:
earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, sobriety, solemnity3.
activity engaged in to amuse oneself
SYNONIMS:
dalliance, frolic, frolicking, fun, fun and games, recreation, relaxation, rollicking, sportRELATED WORDS:
gamboling ( gambolling), romping; amusement, diversion, entertainment; hobby, hobbyhorse, pastime; delight, enjoyment, pleasance, pleasure; friskiness, playfulness, sportiveness, wantonness; devilment, devilry ( deviltry), hanky-panky, hob, impishness, jinks, knavery, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguishness, waggery; binge, fling, kick, lark, revel, rollick, spree; hilarity, merriment, merrymaking, revelry, whoopee; buffoonery, high jinks ( hijinks), horseplay, tomfooleryNEAR ANTONYMS:
drudgery, labor, work; duty, obligation, responsibility4.
a state of noisy, confused activity
SYNONIMS:
ado, alarums and excursions, ballyhoo, blather, bluster, bobbery, bother, bustle, clatter, clutter, coil, corroboree, disturbance, do, foofaraw, fun, furor, furore, fuss, helter-skelter, hoo-ha ( hoo-hah), hoopla, hubble-bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly, hurly-burly, hurricane, hurry, hurry-scurry ( hurry-skurry), kerfuffle, moil, pandemonium, pother, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, splore, squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar, welter, whirl, williwaw, zooRELATED WORDS:
cacophony, clamor, din, howl, hue and cry, noise, outcry, racket, roar; disorder, unrest, upheaval; eruption, flare-up, flurry, flutter, outbreak, outburst; brawl, fracas, fray, hassle, melee ( mêlée), scuffle; dither, fever, fret, lather, tizzyNEAR ANTONYMS:
calm, hush, peace, quiet, quietude, rest, stillness, tranquillity ( tranquility); order, orderlinessto make jokes
SYNONIMS:
banter, chaff, fool, fun, gag, jape, jest, jive, jolly, josh, kid, quip, wisecrack, yuk ( yuck)RELATED WORDS:
gibe ( jibe), haze, jeer, mock, rag, rally, razz, rib, ridicule, tease; caricature, lampoon, parody, satirize; amuse, divert, entertain