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humourous  adj.  Same as humorous; causing amusement or laughter. (Narrower terms: bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek, witty; boisterous, knockabout, slapstick; buffoonish, clownish, zany; comic, comical, funny, laughable, risible; droll, waggish; dry, ironic, ironical, pawky, wry; farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous; Gilbertian; hilarious, uproarious; jesting, jocose, jocular, jocund, joking; merry, mirthful; seriocomic, seriocomical; tragicomic, tragicomical; killing, sidesplitting) Also See: pleasing.
Synonyms: humorous.





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"Humourous" Quotes from Famous Books



... America has more than one way of living the life strenuous, and Broadway, New York, doesn't begin to be the only place where she lives it. Look abroad, look abroad!" She was altogether fascinating as she pointed out to Steering little typical features that he would have missed without her humourous, ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young
... Darwin's work did not die. Huxley took care of that, for he, with his lofty and unprejudiced mind, dominated and inspired English biology until his death on June 29, 1895. He had the satisfaction shortly before his death of learning of Dubois' discovery, which he illustrated by a humourous sketch.[119] But there are still many followers in Darwin's footsteps in England. Keane has worked at the special genealogical tree of the Primates; Keith has inquired which of the anthropoid apes has the greatest number of characters in common with man; Morris concerns himself ...
— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel
... more just and keen satirical description of such legal iniquities can scarcely be imagined, than that contained in this passage. The statutes and precedents adduced, with a humourous reference to the style in which charges are commonly given to juries, show what patterns persecutors choose to copy, and whose kingdom they labour to uphold. Nor can any impartial man deny that the inference is fair, which our author meant ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... of our own day—pathetic, humourous, entertaining, powerful—in which the element of romantic love is altogether subordinate, or even imperceptible. THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM does not owe its deep interest to the engagement of the very charming ...
— Fisherman's Luck • Henry van Dyke
... Among the humourous writings I might perhaps have included the 'Rebusses', of which there are several in the collection of Leonardo's drawings at Windsor; it seems to me not likely that many or all of them could be solved at the present day and the MSS. throw no light on them. Nor should I be ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci


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