humorous
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
humorous
- Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
- The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.
- Showing humor; witty, jocular.
- (obsolete) Damp or watery.
- (obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the affection of fathers to their children”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗, page 212 ↗:
- It is a melancholy humor […] that firſt put this humorous conceipt {{transterm
- (arousing laughter): amusing, funny
- (witty): amusing, jocular, witty
- See also Thesaurus:funny
- See also Thesaurus:witty
- French: humoristique, amusant
- German: humorvoll
- Italian: umoristico, divertente, esilarante
- Russian: юмористи́ческий
- Spanish: humoroso
- German: humorvoll
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