HUMOUROUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does humourous mean? 

• HUMOUROUS (adjective)
  The adjective HUMOUROUS has 1 sense:

1. full of or characterized by humor

  Familiarity information: HUMOUROUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMOUROUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of or characterized by humor

Synonyms:

humorous; humourous

Context example:

in a humorous vein

Similar:

bantering; facetious; tongue-in-cheek (cleverly amusing in tone)

buffoonish; clownish; clownlike; zany (like a clown)

amusing; comic; comical; funny; laughable; mirthful; risible (arousing or provoking laughter)

droll (comical in an odd or whimsical manner)

dry; ironic; ironical; wry (humorously sarcastic or mocking)

farcical; ludicrous; ridiculous (broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce)

Gilbertian (wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas)

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)

waggish (witty or joking)

witty (combining clever conception and facetious expression)

Also:

pleasing (giving pleasure and satisfaction)

Derivation:

humour (the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous)

humour (the quality of being funny)

humour (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)

 Context examples 

I smiled at the notion; it seemed to me at the time to be humourous; and I made my preparations with the most studious care.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)