Usually means: Causing laughter or amusement; funny.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word Humorous:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. humorous: Merriam-Webster
  2. humorous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. humorous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. humorous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. humorous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Humorous, humorous: Wordnik
  7. humorous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. humorous: Wiktionary
  9. humorous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. humorous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. humorous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Humorous, humorous: Dictionary.com
  13. humorous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Humorous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Humorous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. humorous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. humorous: Rhymezone
  18. humorous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. humorous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. humorous: FreeDictionary.org
  21. humorous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. humorous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. humorous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. humorous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. humorous: Sound Alike Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (humorous)

▸ adjective:  Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
▸ adjective:  Showing humor; witty, jocular.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Damp or watery.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.

Similar:
hilarious, risible, sidesplitting, funny, jocular, jocose, laughable, farcical, comical, ludicrous, more...

Opposite:
serious, solemn, dignified, earnest

Types:
slapstick, punchline, one-liner, gag, joke, pun, spoof, parody, satire, more...

Phrases:
humorous lieutenant, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, humorous poet nash, more grimly humorous, humorous imitation, more...

Colors:
    bubblegum pink,     lemon yellow,     lime green,     sky blue,     lavender, more...



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Similar:
hilarious, risible, sidesplitting, funny, jocular, jocose, laughable, farcical, comical, ludicrous, more...

Opposite:
serious, solemn, dignified, earnest

Types:
slapstick, punchline, one-liner, gag, joke, pun, spoof, parody, satire, more...

Phrases:
humorous lieutenant, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, humorous poet nash, more grimly humorous, humorous imitation, inappropriately humorous, oddly humorous, lighthearted humorous, humorous artist, more...

Colors:
    bubblegum pink,     lemon yellow,     lime green,     sky blue,     lavender, more...



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