like fun
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9.9
- idiom
- Informal
- Oh, that sounds like fun!
- sounds like fun
- looks like fun
- seems like fun
Examples
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That sounds like fun.
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There's even a full moon tonight. "Sounds like fun," Jason said.
Fiction book (2002) -
Looks like fun, no?
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That looks like fun!
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It doesn't look like fun.
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Mary also accepted—it sounded like fun, and it beat another evening alone, staring at the ceiling in her hotel room.
Fiction book (2002) -
Sure, playing in the rain sounds like fun for a child, but I prefer to stay dry.
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Going to that crowded concert doesn't seem like fun at all.
Synonyms
∞
7.9
A reply that shows doubt or disbelief and often sounds sarcastic
26
9.8
Said to show that you do not believe or accept something
8
6.8
In a way that shows you do not believe something
Antonyms
How Likely
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sarcastic/emphatic denial meaning 'certainly not' cannot be compositionally derived from 'like' (a discourse/quotative marker) and 'fun' (pleasant amusement); the phrase functions as colloquial, ironic speech rather than a literal combination. A B1 learner who knows the individual words but has not encountered this usage would not reliably infer the idiomatic negative sense, so the expression is language-specific and unpredictable.
Etymology
Like fun comes from a sarcastic answer: imagine someone says 'That will be fun' and a listener repeats like fun with a laugh to show they do not believe it. So today like fun is used to mean 'certainly not'.