humorous

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French humoreux, from Old French humor

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) enPR: hyo͞o'mərəs, IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
• Homophone: humerus

AdjectiveEdit

humorous (comparative more humorous, superlative most humorous)

1. Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.

   The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.

2. Showing humor; witty, jocular.
3. (obsolete) Damp or watery.
4. (obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821:
     , II.8:

     It is a melancholy humor […] that first put this humorous conceipt [transl. resverie] of writing into my head.

SynonymsEdit

• (arousing laughter): amusing, funny
• (witty): amusing, jocular, witty
• See also Wikisaurus:funny
• See also Wikisaurus:witty

Related termsEdit

• humor/humour

Derived termsEdit

• humorously

TranslationsEdit

full of humor or arousing laughter; funny

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幽默 (zh) (yōumò)

• Czech: vtipný (cs)
• French: humoristique (fr), amusant (fr)
• German: humorvoll (de)
• Greek: αστείος (el) m (asteíos), κωμικός (el) m (komikós)
• Irish: greannmhar
• Italian: umoristico (it), divertente (it), esilarante (it)

• Japanese: ユーモラス (yūmorasu), こっけい (kokkei), ユーモアのある (ja) (yūmoa no aru)
• Latvian: jocīgs, smieklīgs
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: humoristisk (no)

  Nynorsk: humoristisk

• Romanian: umoristic (ro), hazliu (ro)
• Russian: юмористи́ческий (ru) (jumoristíčeskij), заба́вный (ru) (zabávnyj), смешно́й (ru) (smešnój)
• Tagalog: mabalantong, nakakatawa

showing humor; witty, jocular

• German: humorvoll (de)
• Greek: αστείος (el) m (asteíos), ευτράπελος (el) m (eftrápelos), πνευματώδης (el) m (pnevmatódis)

• Tagalog: mabalantong