funnest

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Adjective 1.1.1 Usage notes 1.1.2 Quotations 1.2 References

[edit] English

[edit] Adjective

funnest

1. (humorous, nonstandard) Superlative of fun.
   • 2007, Terry Francona, Pressure on Red Sox as ALCS shifts to Cleveland [4]

     That was one of the funnest games I've ever been a part of until the very end, and then it rapidly became a whole lot not of fun. We lost in kind of an ugly fashion at the end.

[edit] Usage notes

• Funnest is a regular superlative of the adjective fun. However, 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 superlative form. Merriam-Webster, however, gives fun as an adjective without comment, and states that funner and funnest are ‘sometimes’ used^[3]. Because of the remaining stigma, most fun may be preferred in formal writing.

[edit] Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

[edit] References

• Notes:

1. ^ American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, 2000. (web version) [1]
2. ^ Edith Hope Fine, Judith Pinkerton Josephson, More Nitty-Gritty Grammar, 2001. [2]
3. ^ [3]