Meaning of HUMOROUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'hyoomurus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" |
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| | Synonyms: | | amusing, bantering, buffoonish, clowlike, clownish, comic, comical, droll, dry, facetious, farcical, funny, Gilbertian, hilarious, humourous, ironic, ironical, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, killing, laughable, ludicrous, mirthful, ridiculous, risible, screaming(a), seriocomic, seriocomical, sidesplitting, slapstick, tongue-in-cheek, tragicomic, tragicomical, uproarious, waggish, witty, wry, zany |
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| | Antonyms: | | humorless, humourless, unhumorous | | |
| | See Also: | | pleasing | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hu"mor*ous\, a. [Cf. L. humorosus, umorosus, moist.
See {Humor}.]
1. Moist; humid; watery. [Obs.]
All founts wells, all deeps humorous. --Chapman.
2. Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular;
capricious; whimsical. --Hawthorne.
Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind. --Dryden.
3. Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a
humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.
Syn: Jocose; facetious; witty; pleasant; merry.
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| | Related Terms: | | absurd, amusing, Attic, beguiling, biting, bizarre, brilliant, clever, comical, delightful, diverting, droll, eccentric, entertaining, facetious, farcical, fun, funny, hilarious, humorsome, hysterical, incongruous, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, laughable, ludicrous, merry, mordant, nimble-witted, playful, pleasant, pointed, priceless, pungent, quaint, quick-witted, quizzical, rapier-like, recreational, rich, ridiculous, risible, salt, salty, scintillating, screaming, sharp, smart, sparkling, sprightly, titillating, titillative, waggish, whimsical, witty |
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