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.
Syn. -- humorous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]