Antonyms for humorous
ˈhyu mər əs; often ˈyu-hu·mor·ous

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1. humorousadjective

   Synonyms:
   funny, jocular, witty, amusing

2. humorousadjective

   Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.

   The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.

   Synonyms:
   funny, witty, amusing, jocular

3. humorousadjective

   Showing humor; witty, jocular.

   Synonyms:
   jocular, funny, witty, amusing

4. humorousadjective

   Damp or watery.

   Synonyms:
   witty, amusing, funny, jocular

5. humorousadjective

   Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.

   Synonyms:
   witty, funny, jocular, amusing

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. humorous

   Antonyms:
   grave, serious, sober, matter-of-fact

   Synonyms:
   facetious, comical, witty, funny

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1. humorous, humourousadjective

   full of or characterized by humor

   "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein"

   Antonyms:
   po-faced, unhumorous, sobersided, unfunny, humorless, humourless

   Synonyms:
   humourous

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1. humorousadjective

   Synonyms:
   facetious, droll, comical, jocular, waggish

How to use humorous in a sentence?

1. Brooks Atkinson:

   The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

2. Ben Nelson:

   When roles are reversed, it’s humorous, republicans were criticizing Democrats for things done back then, and now, they’re engaged in the same thing in order to get the number of votes necessary.

3. General Boykin:

   They claimed I was calling for violence against transgenders, obviously it is not true. It was a figure of speech. It was meant to be humorous and it was humorous to the audience.

4. Joe Crecca:

   We would pass humorous things through the wall, you knew you succeeded when you could hear the guy on the other side laughing.

5. David Riesman:

   America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

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