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Adjective: humorous  hyoo-mu-rus
  1. Full of or characterized by humour
    "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein"; "humorous stories";
    - humourous [Brit, Cdn, non-standard]

Sounds like: hum

See also: amusing, bantering, buffoonish, clownish, clownlike, comic, comical, droll, dry, facetious, farcical, funny, Gilbertian, hilarious, ironic, ironical, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, killing [informal], laughable, ludicrous, mirthful, pleasing, rib-tickling [informal], ridic [informal], ridiculous, risible, screaming, seriocomic, seriocomical, sidesplitting, slapstick, tongue-in-cheek, tragicomic, tragicomical, uproarious, waggish, witty, wry, zany

Encyclopedia: Humorous