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humourous

humourous is the alternative spelling of humorous.

Meaning of humorous

Adjective

humorous (comparative more humorous, superlative most humorous)

  1. Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
    • The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.
  2. Showing humor; witty, jocular.
    Synonyms:
    amusing, jocular, witty
  3. (obsolete) Damp or watery.
  4. (obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
    • [S]uch is now the Duke's condition
      That he misconstrues all that you have done.
      The Duke is humorous; what he is, indeed,
      More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of humourous

comparativemore humourous
superlativemost humourous

Origin of humourous

From humour + -ous.

Words formed from humourous

Questions about humourous

What is humourous the alternative spelling of?
Humourous is the alternative spelling of humorous.

Words near humourous in the dictionary

  1. humourizes
  2. humourizing
  3. humourless
  4. humourlessly
  5. humourlessness
  6. humourous
  7. humourously
  8. humourousness
  9. humours
  10. humoursome
  11. humoursomely

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humourous (page history and authors); humorous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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