humourous

Questions about humourous

What does humourous mean?

humourous means "full of or characterized by humor".

How many syllables are in humourous?

humourous has 3 syllables and divides as hu-mou-rous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for humourous?

Close synonyms include humorous. 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 humourous a common word?

humourous 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.