Happy vs. Funny — What's the Difference?

Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment

Causing laughter or amusement; humorous

Fortunate and convenient

Difficult to explain or understand; strange or odd

Inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random

Comic strips in newspapers

Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy

A joke or witty remark

Cheerful; willing

Causing laughter or amusement

Characterized by good luck

Making or given to making amusing jokes or witticisms

Being especially well-adapted; felicitous

Appropriate as the subject of a joke; deserving of a joke. Used in negative sentences to express disapproval or to emphasize the seriousness of something

Characterized by a spontaneous or obsessive inclination to use something. Often used in combination

Difficult to account for; unusual or odd

Enthusiastic about or involved with to a disproportionate degree. Often used in combination

Suspiciously odd

Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.

Counterfeit or fraudulent

Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.

(Informal) Somewhat ill, painful, or abnormal

Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).

Offensively forward or disrespectful

(Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.

Contrary to one's demands or expectations

(in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.

A joke; a witticism

Dexterous, ready, skilful.

Comic strips.

Implying 'May you have a happy ~' or similar; used in phrases to wish someone happiness or good fortune at the time of a festival, celebration, or other event or activity.

The section of a newspaper containing comic strips.

A happy event, thing, person, etc.

Amusing; humorous; comical.

Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.

Strange or unusual, often implying unpleasant.

Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Showing unexpected resentment.

Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.

Homosexual; gay

Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.

(informal) A joke.

Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.

(informal) A comic strip.

Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune;

(rowing) A rowboat with both ends pointed and out of the water.

Experiencing pleasure or joy;

(British) A narrow clinker-built boat for sculling.

Marked by good fortune;

(nonstandard) In an unusual manner; strangely.

Satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment;

In a manner seen as being typical of a homosexual, or indicating homosexuality

Exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation

Droll; comical; amusing; laughable; inciting laughter.

Well expressed and to the point;

A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling.

Arousing or provoking laughter;

Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;

Not as expected;

Experiencing odd bodily sensations;

In a strange manner;

In a comical manner;