different between funnest vs unnest

English

Adjective

funnest

1. (nonstandard) superlative degree of fun
   • 2007, Terry Francona, Pressure on Red Sox as ALCS shifts to Cleveland [4]

     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 or casual 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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:funnest.

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

funnest

1. past participle of finnast

English

Etymology

un- +? nest

Verb

unnest (third-person singular simple present unnests, present participle unnesting, simple past and past participle unnested)

1. To eject from a nest.
2. To separate objects that have been nested or placed one inside the other.
   • 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons

     The eye unnested from the head, cannot see

   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter One,

     She unnested the coffee cans and used the top one as an ashtray.

Synonyms

• unnestle

Anagrams

• unsent