What are some opposite words for fun?
Antonyms for fun
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This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term fun.
Wiktionary
funnoun
enjoyable, amusing.
Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.
funadjective
whimsical, flamboyant
This year's fashion style is much more fun than recent seasons.
Synonyms:
rough and tumble, horseplay, boisterousness
English Synonyms and Antonyms
fun
Entertainment and recreation imply thought and mental occupation, tho in an agreeable, refreshing way; they are therefore words of a high order. Entertainment, apart from its special senses of a public performance or a social party, and predominantly even there, is used of somewhat mirthful mental delight; recreation may, and usually does, combine the mental with the physical. Amusement and pastime are nearly equivalent, the latter probably the lighter word; many slight things may be pastimes which we should hardly dignify by the name of amusements. Sports are almost wholly on the physical plane, tho involving a certain grade of mental action; fox-hunting, horse-racing, and baseball are sports. Certain sports may afford entertainment or recreation to certain persons, according to their individual tastes; but entertainment and recreation are capable of a meaning so high as never to be approached by any meaning of sport. Cheer may be very quiet, as the cheer of a bright fire to an aged traveler; merriment is with liveliness and laughter; fun and frolic are apt to be boisterous. Amusement is a form of enjoyment, but enjoyment may be too keen to be called amusement. Compare synonyms for ENTERTAIN.
Antonyms:
ennui, fatigue, labor, lassitude, toil, weariness, workSynonyms:
amusement, cheer, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, frolic, merriment, pastime, pleasure, recreation, sport
Princeton's WordNet
fun, merriment, playfulnessnoun
activities that are enjoyable or amusing
"I do it for the fun of it"; "he is fun to have around"
Synonyms:
gaiety, play, merriment, playfulness, sportfun, play, sportnoun
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"
Synonyms:
manoeuvre, looseness, sportsman, variation, summercater, period of play, shimmer, play, sportswoman, bid, mutant, maneuver, caper, romp, athletics, gaming, merriment, sport, frolic, mutation, playing period, free rein, child's play, gambling, swordplay, gambol, dramatic play, playfulness, turn, dramafunnoun
violent and excited activity
"she asked for money and then the fun began"; "they began to fight like fun"
Synonyms:
play, merriment, playfulness, sportplayfulness, funnoun
a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement
"her playfulness surprised me"; "he was fun to be with"
Synonyms:
gaiety, play, merriment, playfulness, sport
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
funnoun
Synonyms:
merriment, mirth, gayety, frolic, jest, pleasantry, drollery, waggery, waggishness, facetiousness, divertisement amusement, relaxation, jocularity
How to use fun in a sentence?
It's been fun to coach him. It's been fun to watch his growth.
My initial reaction was we have to go see this. It was something unusual and a fun call to be on if we found it.
Ben Jerry’s flavor gurus are always searching for new, fun and quirky ways to make eating ice cream extraordinary, it has all of the ridgey goodness of their more crispy cousins, but is slightly less sweet.
The mayor has instituted a vaccine requirement and/or negative test to get into all the fun things to do in New Orleans – the food, the music.
When I left Jennings, I didn't want to work in a white area, i liked the black community. I had fun there. . . . There's people who will just crack you up.
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