Funnest

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Used informally to denote the activity or experience providing the greatest amusement or enjoyment compared to others
2. Serving as the most entertaining or pleasurable option in a set of choices or experiences
3. Characterizing something that yields the highest level of fun or delight above all alternatives

Etymology: Fun began as a verb meaning "to cheat or trick," and its noun sense of a hoax came first in the early 1700s, with the sense of amusement arriving only in the 1720s. Those older meanings survive in the phrase "to make fun of," recorded from 1737, which still carries the sense of teasing or mocking someone. The adjective "funnest" comes from a more recent shift. Speakers reanalysed the noun "fun" as if it were an adjective, a change that was already underway by the mid-1800s. Once "fun" could be used like "funny," it could take the ordinary comparative and superlative endings, so "funnest" is simply the superlative of "fun" in its adjective use, meaning most enjoyable. Many people still regard "funnest" as informal or non-standard, partly because the word has no clear older literary pedigree and partly because "most fun" sounds more conventional to many ears.

Synonyms: most fun, most enjoyable, most amusing, most entertaining

Antonyms: least fun, boring, unenjoyable, dull