sample sentences
"humorous stories""humorous cartoons"
"in a humorous vein"
semantic pointers
also see
similar to
tongue-in-cheek, facetious, bantering
buffoonish, clownish, clownlike, zany
funny, comic, amusing, comical, laughable, mirthful, risible
droll
dry, ironic, ironical, wry
ludicrous, farcical, ridiculous
Gilbertian
hilarious, screaming, uproarious
jocular, jocose, jesting, joking
killing, sidesplitting
seriocomic, seriocomical
slapstick
tragicomic, tragicomical
waggish
witty