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Definition of Humorous
1. Adjective. Full of or characterized by humor. "In a humorous vein"
Similar to: Bantering, Facetious, Tongue-in-cheek, Buffoonish, Clownish, Clownlike, Zany, Amusing, Comic, Comical, Funny, Laughable, Mirthful, Risible, Droll, Dry, Ironic, Ironical, Wry, Farcical, Ludicrous, Ridiculous, Gilbertian, Hilarious, Screaming, Uproarious, Jesting, Jocose, Jocular, Joking, Killing, Sidesplitting, Seriocomic, Seriocomical, Slapstick, Tragicomic, Tragicomical, Waggish, Witty
Also: Pleasing
Derivative terms: Humor, Humor, Humor, Humorousness, Humour, Humour, Humour
Antonyms: Humorless
Definition of Humorous
1. a. Moist; humid; watery.
Definition of Humorous
1. Adjective. Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny. ¹
2. Adjective. Showing humor; witty, jocular. ¹
3. Adjective. (obsolete) Damp or watery. ¹
4. Adjective. (obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Humorous
1. funny; witty [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humorous
Literary usage of Humorous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1911)
"humorous-Satirical Snatches. In the snatch of one-stress and two-stress iambic
verse, II, v, 89-92, Shakespeare not improbably travesties certain fads and ..."
2. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, Aeneas James George Mackay, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"Comic or humorous Poems. 5. Laudatory Poems or Panegyrics. 6. Vituperative Poems
or Invectives. 7. Precatory Poems or Petitions to the King or Queen. 8. ..."
3. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400 by John Edwin Wells (1916)
"humorous TALES That tales corresponding in matter to the extant French fabliaux
were current in England from an early period, ..."
4. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1912)
"lThe scene with Cinna is only played on the Elizabethan stage; it is richly
humorous and shows what a master craftsman Shakespeare was to relieve the ..."
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