funnest

English

Adjective

funnest

  1. (nonstandard) superlative of fun
    • 2007, Terry Francona, Pressure on Red Sox as ALCS shifts to Cleveland
      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.

Usage notes

While funnest is a regular superlative of the adjective fun, the superlative most 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 superlative form. Merriam-Webster gives fun as an adjective without comment, and states that funner and funnest are "sometimes" used.[3]

Quotations

  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:funnest.

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

funnest

  1. past participle of finnast
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