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English
Adjective
funnest
- (informal) superlative degree 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
References
- ^ American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, 2000. (web version)
- ^ Edith Hope Fine, Judith Pinkerton Josephson, More Nitty-Gritty Grammar, 2001.
- ^ “Archived copy”, in Merriam-Webster, 2006 June 11 (last accessed), archived from the original on 12 October 2007
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
funnest
- past participle of finnast