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. B. J. Gupta:

   In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned.

2. 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.

3. Jean Lee:

   They're very humorous and fun to watch, these new economic scenes.

4. 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.

5. 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.