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Funnest vs Funest - What's the difference?

funnest | funest |

As adjectives the difference between funnest and funest

is that funnest is form of superlative|fun while funest is causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.

funnest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (humorous, nonstandard)
  • * 2007, Terry Francona, Pressure on Red Sox as ALCS shifts to Cleveland [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview?gameId=271015105]
    • 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''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'', 4th edition, 2000. (web version) or casualEdith Hope Fine, Judith Pinkerton Josephson, ''More Nitty-Gritty Grammar,'' 2001. [http://www.bartleby.com/61/11/F0361100.html] 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[http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=fun&x=0&y=0.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "funnest")

    References

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    funest

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.
  • * 1663 Sept 17th, John Evelyn in a letter to Dr. Pierce, published 1863 in Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S. , volume 3, page 142:
    • I do assure you, there is nothing I have a greater scorn and indignation against, than these wretched scoffers; and I look upon our neglect of severely punishing them as an high defect in our politics, and a forerunner of something very funest .
  • * 1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning'', from ''Miscellanies , 3rd volume, page 226:
    • Scarce had this unhappy Nation recover'd these funest disasters, when the abomination of Play-houses rose up in this land: From hence hath an inundation of Obscenity flow'd from the Court and overspread the Kingdom.
  • * 1854 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
    • …excepting only some Popes have be'en remarked by their own histories for funest and direful deaths.
  • * 1922 (first published 1923-09-07), :
    • Funest philosophers and ponderers,
    Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 264:
    • Flora, initially an ivory-pale, dark-haired funest beauty, whom the author transformed just in time into a third bromidic dummy with a dun bun.
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