Synonyms 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

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1. humorous

   Synonyms:
   facetious, comical, witty, funny

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

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1. humorous, humourousadjective

   full of or characterized by humor

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

   Synonyms:
   humourous

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

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1. humorousadjective

   Synonyms:
   facetious, jocular, jocose, droll, funny, sportive, comical, witty, pleasant

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1. humorousadjective

   Synonyms:
   facetious, droll, comical, jocular, waggish

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1. List of paraphrases for "humorous":

   humor, humour, comic, funny

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How to use humorous in a sentence?

1. Reilly Flaherty:

   I think what people are finding that this is a pretty humorous, quintessential New York story of this person who goes 50% with trying to have a nice deed but ends up coming off with an asterisk at the end.

2. Brandi Redmond:

   I actually had it sent to me on my phone and I was like Oh! Oh my gosh! I did see a little clip of it. It’s humorous, and believe me, I did not continue to watch it. But it is humorous and I can see why she’s getting a lot of negativity about it.

3. 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.

4. W. Somerset Maugham:

   I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

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.