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HUMOROUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Full of or characterized by humor
Example:
in a humorous vein
Synonyms:
humorous; humourous
Classified under:
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)
Antonym:
humorless (lacking humor)
Derivation:
humor (the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous)
humor (the quality of being funny)
humor (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)
humorousness (the trait of merry joking)
Context examples:
I shall leave masterpieces alone and do hack-work—jokes, paragraphs, feature articles, humorous verse, and society verse—all the rot for which there seems so much demand.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The Professor looked at me, and there was something humorous at the back of his eyes.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Self-enhancing humour, meanwhile, entails maintaining a humorous outlook in potentially stressful and adverse situations.
(Self-defeating humour promotes psychological well-being, University of Granada)
He shrugged his shoulders in humorous deprecation of the state of things which he had himself done so much to produce.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He relapsed at once into the half-humorous, half-cynical vein which was his habitual attitude to those about him.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He turned to seize his weapon, but as he did so his gaze fell upon the blazonry of sir Nigel's shield, and he stood staring, while the fire in his strange green eyes softened into a sly and humorous twinkle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then two humorous poems had earned two dollars and three dollars respectively.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I turned, and found myself looking into the humorous, masterful eyes of the tall, thin man who had volunteered to be my companion on this strange quest.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the one hand, the results regarding the relationship between the use of humour and anger management suggest that the capacity for maintaining a humorous perspective in adverse situations, i.e. the use of self-enhancing humour, is typically found among people who manage anger more effectively, as well as among those with lower tendencies to exhibit angry feelings or reactions.
(Self-defeating humour promotes psychological well-being, University of Granada)
A few jokes and snatches of humorous verse, sold to the New York weeklies, made existence barely possible for him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
