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. President Biden:

   A war hero and among the greatest of the Greatest Generation, and to me, he was also a friend whom I could look to for trusted guidance, or a humorous line at just the right moment to settle frayed nerves. I will miss my friend. But I am grateful for the times we shared, and for the friendship Jill and I and our family have built with Liddy and the entire Dole family.

2. Roger Stone:

   Our texts are the late night bickering of two grumpy political veterans, who have known each other for years. They are friendly as well as nasty, ribald, vicious, inconsistent humorous and vile.

3. 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.

4. Mark McCloskey:

   It’s the value of the Second Amendment, it’s kind of humorous for me at any rate, the charge they finally settled on for me, because it’s exactly what I did do. That’s the whole point of the Second Amendment. We stood out there with guns, and that placed them in imminent fear of physical injury, and they back off.

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.