Synonyms of the word

humourous

• adj. (chiefly Britain, uncommon, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of humorous.

amusing

• v. present participle of amuse.
• adj. Entertaining.
• adj. Funny, hilarious.

bantering

• n. teasing.
• n. joking; jesting.
• v. present participle of banter.
• adj. That teases.

buffoonish

• adj. Characteristic of a buffoon.

clownish

• adj. (now rare) Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
• adj. (now rare) Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.
• adj. Like a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.

clownlike

• adj. Resembling a clown or some aspect of clowns.

comic

• adj. Funny; amusing; comical.
• adj. Relating to comedy.
• n. A comedian.
• n. A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
• n. (Britain) A children's newspaper.

comical

• adj. (archaic) Originally, relating to comedy.
• adj. funny, whimsically amusing.
• adj. laughable; ridiculous.

droll

• adj. oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.
• n. (archaic) A buffoon.
• v. (archaic) To joke, to jest.

dry

• adj. Free from or lacking moisture.
• adj. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (Petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
• adj. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
• adj. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquid…
• adj. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
• adj. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
• adj. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly.
• adj. (sciences, somewhat pejorative) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
• n. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
• n. (especially Australia, with "the") The dry season.
• n. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
• v. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
• v. (transitive) To remove moisture from.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.

facetious

• adj. Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
• adj. Pleasantly humorous; jocular.

farcical

• adj. resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.

funny

• adj. Amusing; humorous; comical.
• adj. Strange or unusual, often implying unpleasant.
• n. (humorous) A joke.
• n. (humorous) A comic strip.
• n. (Britain) A narrow boat for sculling.

hilarious

• adj. Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
• adj. Full of hilarity; merry.

humorous

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

ironic

• adj. Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
• adj. Given to the use of irony; sarcastic.

ironical

• adj. Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
• adj. Given to the use of irony; sarcastic.
• adj. (obsolete) Feigning ignorance; simulating lack of instruction or knowledge; exhibiting Socratic irony.

jesting

• n. joking.
• n. bantering; ridicule.
• n. mocking.
• adj. facetious.
• adj. humorous.
• adj. playful; mocking.
• adj. jeering.
• v. present participle of jest.

jocose

• adj. given to jest; habitually jolly.
• adj. playful; characterized by joking.

jocular

• adj. (formal) Humorous, amusing or joking.

joking

• v. present participle of joke.
• v. (Britain, US, Ireland, colloquial, transitive) Kidding, trying to fool.
• n. The act of telling or engaging in jokes.

killing

• v. present participle of kill.
• adj. That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
• adj. Devastatingly attractive.
• adj. That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
• n. An instance of someone being killed.
• n. (informal) A large amount of money.

laughable

• adj. Fitted to excite laughter; humorous.
• adj. Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision.

ludicrous

• adj. Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny.
• adj. Amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.

mirthful

• adj. filled with mirth.

pleasing

• v. present participle of please.
• adj. Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
• n. pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing.".

ridiculous

• adj. Deserving of ridicule; foolish; absurd.

risible

• adj. Of or pertaining to laughter.
• adj. Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant.
• adj. (of a person) Easily laughing; prone to laughter.

screaming

• v. present participle of scream.
• adj. Loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.
• adj. Obvious; distinct.
• adj. (LGBT, slang) Effeminate, flamboyant or otherwise obviously gay.

seriocomic

• adj. Having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies.

seriocomical

• adj. seriocomic.

sidesplitting

• adj. (of laughter) Intensely uncontrollable and genuine.
• adj. Exceptionally funny; hilarious.

slapstick

• n. (uncountable) A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with…
• n. (countable) A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially…

tongue-in-cheek

• adj. (idiomatic) Not intended seriously; jocular or humorous.
• adv. (obsolete) With contempt.
• adv. With irony.

tragicomic

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy in having both tragic and comic aspects.

tragicomical

• adj. Having the characteristics of a tragicomedy.

uproarious

• adj. Characterized by loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter.

waggish

• adj. witty, jocular, like a wag.
• adj. mischievous, tricky.

witty

• adj. (obsolete) Wise, having good judgement.
• adj. (archaic) Possessing a strong intellect or intellectual capacity; intelligent, skilful, ingenious.
• adj. Clever; amusingly ingenious.
• adj. Full of wit.
• adj. Quick of mind; insightful; in possession of wits.

wry

• adj. Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
• adj. Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
• adj. Twisted, bent, crooked.
• adj. Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To divert; to cause to turn away.
• v. (transitive) To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide.

zany

• adj. Unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish.
• adj. Ludicrously or incongruously comical.
• n. (obsolete) A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions…
• v. (obsolete) To mimic foolishly.