humorist, n. comedy writer, Inf gag writer, cartoonist, caricaturist, lampoonist, parodist; jokester, joker, comic, comedian, comedienne, Inf. standup comic, clown, slapstick artist; harlequin, punch, Punchinello, scaramouche, fool, jester; droll fellow, funny person, banterer, Inf. wisecracker, punster; cutup, zany, madcap, antic; Fr. farceur, mummer, mime, mimic.
humorous, adj. 1. funny, comic, laughable, ridiculous, farcical, ludicrous, absurd; rib-tickling, side-splitting, screamingly funny; witty, clever, sharp, sarcastic, ironical, satirical.
2. droll, facetious, jocose, jocular, jovial, jolly, merry; lively, amusing, Inf. cute, waggish, devilish, roguish, prankish, arch, mischievous; sportive, playful,
hump, n. 1. protuberance, prominence, (of a bone) tuberosity, projection, protrusion, bulge, convexity, hunch; nodule, node, knob, mass, lump, bump; swelling, swell, intumescence, tumefaction, dilation, enlarging.
2. hummock, hillock, knoll, monticle. See - hillock.
3. over the hump out of the woods, over the worst of it, in the clear; safe, secure, on the way up, on the road to recovery.
-v. 4. hunch, arch. See - hunch (def. 1). humpback, n. See - hunchback, humpbacked, adj. See - hunchbacked, humus, n. soil, earth, dirt, ground, sod, clod, Archaic. glebe; loam, clay, marl, mold, dust, gumbo, till, adobe.
hunch, v. 1. thrust out, arch, vault, curve, hump, crook; incurve, turn, curl, flex, bend, embow; bunch up, curl up, tuck, fold up.
2. shove, push, jostle, elbow, shoulder; poke, jog, press, plunge, nudge; bump, buffet, jounce; squeeze, wedge, slice, Chiefly Dial, scrouge; push through, drive through, bulldoze, ram, butt.
3. lunge forward, thrust, foin, pass, cut, cut and thrust; rush, charge, propel.
4. stoop, crouch, Dial, scrooch, Dial, scrouch; bend, squat, cringe; get down, hunker.
-n. 5. lump, hump, protuberance, gibbosity. See - hump (def. 1).
6. push, shove, jog, jolt, jostle; thrust, blow, buffet; nudge, poke, stroke, joggle; butt, bunt, boost; propulsion, impulsion, impulse.
hunchback, n. 1. humpback, crookback, camel back, Med. kyphosis, Quasimodo, Fr. bossu.
2. crooked back, hunchback, round shoulders, stoop shoulders, Vet. Pathol, sway-back, Pathol, scoliosis, gibbosity, stoop, hump; deformation, malformation, misshape.
hunchbacked, adj. humpbacked, hunchbacked, crookbacked, camel-back, hunchedback, crooked-back, Pathol, scoliotic; humped, stooped, Med. kyphotic, gibbous, stoop-shouldered; misshapen, deformed, malformed, misbegotten,
hundred, n. 1. centum, Welsh, centef, 100, C; century, centennial, centenary, centennium.
2. U.S. Informal, one hundred dollars, hundred-dollar bill, SI.C-note, SI.C, SI.one bill, SI.century.
3. Brit. Informal, one hundred pounds.
hunger, n. 1. hungriness, appetite, appetition, appetence, stomach, taste; tapeworm, Pathol, bulimia, canine appetite, Inf. sweet tooth; ravenousness, edacity, voraciousness.