chucklesome

adjective

Definition of chucklesomenext
as in humorous
causing or intended to cause laughter an inadvertently chucklesome comment sent titters through the audience

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chucklesome
  1. humorous
  2. funny
  3. comedic
  4. amusing
  5. comical
  6. comic
  7. hysterical
Adjective
  • Despite the humorous discouragement from her friends and family, Hurosky remains committed to her goal with a slight modification.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The actress also shared stories about learning Russian for the film and a humorous boating incident.
    Ty Gaskins, WWD, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of humorous
Adjective
  • Nick Park directed this funny flick that may not be Aardman’s best, but minor Aardman is still a family film worth seeing.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • In Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector’s incisive and dazzlingly funny play now on Broadway about a Berkeley school board navigating a mumps outbreak, Amber Gray is a new parent named Carina.
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of funny
Adjective
  • Concepts of drag comedy and nonbinary people held a different sort of weight, and the cross-dressing escapades in the movie, as two hapless male musicians flee the mob by donning dresses and joining an all-women band, didn’t hold the same sort of comedic sway.
    Chad Jones, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The Friends star has pulled off countless comedic stunts with panache over the course of his storied career, but his role in the second season of Disney+ and Hulu's Goosebumps is pushing his range to new limits.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of comedic
Adjective
  • Picaresque, amusing, and brisk, this is a worldly hangout novel of 21st-century manners.
    Vogue, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Jeon Seok-ho is consistently amusing as Woo-seok, an excitable small-time criminal who joins Jun-ho in the search for the island.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of amusing
Adjective
  • And the confusion caused by a talking horse (mirroring the Francis the Talking Mule film series), and the comical situations Ed got Wilbur into was the basis behind the Mister Ed sitcom, which was introduced in first-run syndication on January 5, 1961.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Viewers can expect lots of comical commentary from the two best friends, as well as appearances by Sting, Meghan Trainor and Shania Twain.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of comical
Adjective
  • The comic posts and memes have a simple explanation.
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Their comic genius and quick wit was like no other.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of comic
Adjective
  • With hysterical plotlines involving things like intercourse with baked goods or hair gels made from bodily fluids?
    Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Upon losing to Ryan Gosling, who won for La La Land, the cameras caught Reynolds giving a hysterical celebratory kiss to Andrew Garfield during the ceremony.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of hysterical
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