The writer is very humorous.
Source: tatoeba (47785)
Humorous
//ˈhjuːməɹəs//
Synonyms for "humorous" (83 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (41)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
15 entriessimilar
55 entriesShowing 16 of 55 words.
Translations
63 translations across 29 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- snaaks adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Bulgarian
3 entries- комичен adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
- смешен adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
- хумористичен adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Catalan
2 entries- divertit adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- humorístic adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 幽默 adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Czech
1 entries- vtipný adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Dutch
1 entries- humoristisch adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Esperanto
1 entries- humura adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Finnish
3 entries- humoristinen adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- humoristinen adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
- vitsikäs adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
French
2 entries- amusant adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- humoristique adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Galician
1 entries- humorístico adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
German
2 entries- humorvoll adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- humorvoll adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
Greek
4 entries- αστείος adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- αστείος adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
- γελαστικός adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- ευτράπελος adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
Indonesian
1 entries- kelakar adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Ingrian
2 entries- naljakas adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
- šuutkikas adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
Irish
1 entries- greannmhar adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Italian
3 entries- divertente adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- esilarante adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- umoristico adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Japanese
3 entries- こっけい adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- ユーモアのある adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- ユーモラス adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Latin
2 entries- iocularis adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- ridiculus adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Latvian
2 entries- jocīgs adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- smieklīgs adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Maltese
1 entries- tad-daħk adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Marathi
2 entries- मजेशीर adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- विनोदी adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Māori
1 entries- pukuhohe adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- humoristisk adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- humoristisk adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Portuguese
1 entries- humorístico adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Romanian
2 entries- hazliu adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- umoristic adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Russian
3 entries- заба́вный adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- смешно́й adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- юмористи́ческий adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Spanish
4 entries- chistoso adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
- cómico adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
- divertido adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- gracioso adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Tagalog
3 entries- mabalantong adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
- mabalantong adj (showing humor; witty, jocular)
- nakatatawa adj (full of humor or arousing laughter; funny)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
His behavior at the party was so humorous that I could not help laughing.
Source: tatoeba (50049)
He is of a humorous turn of mind.
Source: tatoeba (289847)
He began his lecture with a humorous anecdote.
Source: tatoeba (292819)
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