Definition: full of or characterized by humor
Usage: humorous stories; humorous cartoons; in a humorous vein
Similar words: tongue-in-cheek, bantering, facetious
Definition: cleverly amusing in tone
Usage: a bantering tone; facetious remarks; tongue-in-cheek advice
Similar words: buffoonish, clownish, clownlike, zany
Definition: like a clown
Usage: a buffoonish walk; a clownish face; a zany sense of humor
Similar words: funny, amusing, mirthful, risible, laughable, comic, comical
Definition: arousing or provoking laughter
Usage: an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls; an amusing fellow; a comic hat; a comical look of surprise; funny stories that made everybody laugh; a very funny writer; it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much; a mirthful experience; risible courtroom antics
Similar words: droll
Definition: comical in an odd or whimsical manner
Usage: a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor
Similar words: dry, wry, ironic, ironical
Definition: humorously sarcastic or mocking
Usage: dry humor; an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely; an ironic novel; an ironical smile; with a wry Scottish wit
Similar words: ludicrous, ridiculous, farcical
Definition: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
Usage: the wild farcical exuberance of a clown; ludicrous green hair
Similar words: Gilbertian
Definition: wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas
Usage: a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings- T.C.Worsley
Similar words: hilarious, uproarious, screaming
Definition: marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
Usage: hilarious broad comedy; a screaming farce; uproarious stories
Similar words: joking, jesting, jocose, jocular
Definition: characterized by jokes and good humor
Similar words: killing, sidesplitting
Definition: very funny
Usage: a killing joke; sidesplitting antics
Similar words: seriocomic, seriocomical
Definition: mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating
Usage: a seriocomic novel
Similar words: slapstick
Definition: characterized by horseplay and physical action
Usage: slapstick style of humor
Similar words: tragicomic, tragicomical
Definition: having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics
Usage: her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure--Joseph Conrad
Similar words: waggish
Definition: witty or joking
Usage: Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer- James Fenimore Cooper
Similar words: witty
Definition: combining clever conception and facetious expression
Usage: his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent