humourist

Other forms of humourist

plural

humourists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about humourist

What does humourist mean?

humourist means "someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way".

How many syllables are in humourist?

humourist has 3 syllables: hu-mou-rist. The stress falls on "hu".

What is another word for humourist?

Close synonyms include humorist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is humourist a common word?

humourist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.