English > humorous: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Full of or characterized by humor. |
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| Examples | - "humorous stories"
- "humorous cartoons"
- "in a humorous vein"
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| Synonym | humourous |
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| Narrower | Gilbertian | wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas |
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| amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible | Arousing or provoking laughter |
| bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek | cleverly amusing in tone |
| buffoonish, clownish, clownlike, zany | like a clown |
| droll | comical in an odd or whimsical manner |
| dry, ironic, ironical, wry | humorously sarcastic or mocking |
| farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous | broadly or extravagantly humorous |
| hilarious, screaming, uproarious | marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter |
| jesting, jocose, jocular, joking | Characterized by jokes and good humor |
| killing, sidesplitting | Very funny |
| seriocomic, seriocomical | Mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating |
| slapstick | Characterized by horseplay and physical action |
| tragicomic, tragicomical | Having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics / characteristics |
| waggish | witty or joking |
| witty | combining clever conception and facetious expression |
| See also | pleasing | Giving pleasure and satisfaction |
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| Opposite | humorless, humourless, unhumorous | lacking humor / humor / humor |
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| Spanish | chistoso, cómica, cómico, divertido, graciosa, gracioso, humorística, humorístico |
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| Catalan | humorístic |
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| Nouns | humor | the quality of being funny |
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| humor | the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous |
| humor | a message whose ingenuity / ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter |
| humorousness | the trait of merry / merry joking |
| Adverbs | humorously | in a humorous manner |
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