funnily
/ˈfʌnəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a strange or unexpected manner, especially of a coincidence.
Example Sentences
- "In this respect then, Gabriel's repetitive lyric of everyone playing: “games without frontiers and war without tears” was on the one hand quite funnily wrong. 'It's a Knockout' produced tears of laughter. […]"
- "Who, Bob? I just ran into him last week, funnily enough."
- "It hurts to swallow and to eat . . . sometimes, I find myself breathing funnily. The doctors have not found anything, even after the X-ray, but I feel that there is something physically wrong . . ."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more funnily (comparative)
most funnily (superlative)