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humorous
1[ hyoo-mer-uhsor, often, yoo- ]
humorous
2[ hyoo-mer-uhsor, often, yoo- ]
adjective
- Archaic. moist; wet.
- pertaining or due to the bodily humors.
humorous
/ ˈhjuːmərəs /
Derived Forms
- ˈhumorously, adverb
- ˈhumorousness, noun
Other Words From
- humor·ous·ly adverb
- humor·ous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
After he caricatured the Marx brothers, the film studio sought to restyle Groucho to look more like a humorous Hirschfeld.
We described the second video as either humorous or boring, and then asked them how long they thought each video would feel like it lasted.
Former Mayor Jerry Sanders – or Darren Pudgil, the spokesman who delivered this quote – comes out looking sensible and humorous while reframing the whole debacle such that it’s hard to imagine this ending up any other way.
Manansala has created just that with her debut novel, a tale full of eccentric characters, humorous situations and an oh-so-tricky mystery.
He’d let Schaefer vent, then calmly ask him questions or make a humorous remark.
In fact, she also launched a humorous series “Ask Lena” on YouTube where she gives sage advice on feminism in episode one.
The sniper barely missed, and Steven relayed the story as equal parts humorous and traumatic.
Libyans are by and large charming, charismatic, humorous people with a Mediterranean joie de vivre.
Austen, Eliot, and James sometimes complemented their essential seriousness with humorous minor characters and subplots.
Mollen, an actress, first got her literary start by way of a humorous incident, naturally.
"You positively convulse me, you're so very humorous," said Robinson, without a vestige of a smile.
Perhaps our comic papers have never heard of the Improvement Clubs, or find nothing in them that is humorous.
He was fond of the pathetic, but the humorous moved him most, and his lively gifts were welcome wherever we went.
Aunt Ri gazed at her with a sentiment as near to veneration as her dry, humorous, practical nature was capable of feeling.
Her hazel eyes were very round for a moment, then they narrowed, and little humorous lines formed at the corners of her lips.
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