humorous
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 8
/ˈhjuːməɹəs/(UK)
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/ˈhjuːməɹəs/(UK) · /ˈhjuːməɹəs/(US)
Definition of humorous
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
“The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.”
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adj
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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.
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(obsolete)Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
“[S]uch is now the Duke's condition That he misconstrues all that you have done. The Duke is humorous; what he is, indeed, More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.”
“It is a melancholy humor[…]that firſt put this humorous conceipt [translating resverie] of writing into my head.”
“I felt at this time as if I could have been fond of him too, if he would have let me; but I was timid from my childhood, and before long my dread of his displeasure […] conquered my humorous inclination to love one who was so handsome, so accomplished, so indulgent and devoted.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English humorous (compare Medieval Latin hūmorōsus), equivalent to humor + -ous.
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