humorous

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French humoreux, from Old French humor, from Latin hūmor.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) enPR: hyo͞o'mərəs, IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməɹɪs/
• 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, “Of the affection of fathers to their children”, in 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 [transl. resverie] of writing into my head.

Usage notesEdit

While the spelling humour is preferred over humor in British English, humorous is standard in both American and British English, and humourous is nonstandard.

SynonymsEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

• humorously

Related termsEdit

• humor, humour

TranslationsEdit

full of humor or arousing laughter; funny

• Bulgarian: хумористичен (bg) (humorističen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幽默 (zh) (yōumò)

• Czech: vtipný (cs)
• Finnish: humoristinen (fi)
• French: humoristique (fr), amusant (fr)
• Galician: humorístico m
• German: humorvoll (de)
• Greek: αστείος (el) m (asteíos), κωμικός (el) m (komikós)
• Indonesian: kelakar (id)

• 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

• Bulgarian: смешен (bg) (smešen), комичен (bg) (komičen)
• Finnish: humoristinen (fi), vitsikäs (fi)
• German: humorvoll (de)

• Greek: αστείος (el) m (asteíos), ευτράπελος (el) m (eftrápelos), πνευματώδης (el) m (pnevmatódis)
• Tagalog: mabalantong