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English
Adjective
funner
- (informal) comparative form of fun: more fun
- 1979, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in Wyoming, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
- "I wish I would have played basketball when I was out. It's a lot more funner."
- 1992, Ana Malinow Rajkovic, Manual for (Relatively) Painless Medical Spanish [4]
- Sounds like a great vacation, doesn’t it? It would be much funner, undoubtedly, to spend four weeks learning intensive Spanish in Guadalajara... but what do you expect for this price?
- 2000, Julia Bourland, The Go-Girl Guide [5]
- Every wardrobe needs an all-purpose cocktail dress, but these are often funner if you can find a retro party dress in flawless shape at a vintage clothing store.
- 1979, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in Wyoming, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Usage notes
While funner is a regular comparative of the adjective fun, the comparative more fun is much more common. The use of fun as an adjective is itself still often seen as informal[1] or casual[2] and to be avoided in formal writing, and this would apply equally to the comparative form. Merriam-Webster gives fun as an adjective without comment, and states that funner and funnest are "sometimes" used.[3]
References
- ^ American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, 2000. (web version) [1]
- ^ Edith Hope Fine, Judith Pinkerton Josephson, More Nitty-Gritty Grammar, 2001. [2]
- ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[3], 2006 June 11 (last accessed), archived from the original on 12 October 2007