The Collaborative International Dictionary
humourous \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.
Syn: humorous.
Wiktionary
a. (context chiefly UK uncommon nonstandard English) (alternative spelling of humorous English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "humourous".
He was closely followed by one who in every particular, save that of age, was his physical opposite, corpulent in a brawny, vigorous way, with a full, round, weather-beaten face whose mouth was humourous and whose eyes were blue and twinkling.
In 1978 The Sydney (Australia) Science Fiction Foundation awarded me the Pat Terry Memorial Award for Humourous Writing, for the Callahan stories.