Synonyms for humorous
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Funny — full of humor or arousing laughter; funny
funny, hilarious, amusing, comical, comic, ridiculous, ludicrous, uproarious, farcical, jocose formal, priceless, screaming, mirthful, absurd, risible, laughable dated, laughworthy rare
2. Witty — showing humor; witty, jocular
witty, jocular, droll, tongue-in-cheek, facetious, whimsical, jesting, merry, waggish, playful, sportive
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.
- adj. 2
Showing humor; witty, jocular.
Related words
- Word family
- humorously humorousness humor
- Other spellings
- humourous UK
Example sentences
- funny He told us such a funny story that we all laughed.
- hilarious Some machine translations are downright hilarious.
- amusing Tom told me that he thought that Mary was amusing.
- comical The absurdity of the situation was almost comical.
- witty Tom told me that he thought that Mary was witty.
- jocular She sounded as if she were in a jocular mood.
By length
- 5 letters
- funny2, comic2, merry2, witty2, droll1
- 6 letters
- absurd2, jocose2
- 7 letters
- amusing3, playful2, comical3, jocular3, risible, jesting, waggish
- 8 letters
- pleasant2, farcical3, sportive, mirthful
- 9 letters
- hilarious4, screaming2, priceless2, ludicrous3, laughable3, whimsical3, facetious3
- 10 letters
- ridiculous4, uproarious
- 11 letters
- laughworthy
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (funny2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- humoristique
- Italiano
- umoristico
- Español
- humorístico