humorous

hu·mor·ous (hy

adj.

1. Full of or characterized by humor; funny: a humorous story.

2. Employing or showing humor; witty: a humorous writer.

3. Archaic Given to moods or whims; capricious.

4. Obsolete Damp; moist.

humor·ous·ly adv.

humor·ous·ness n.

humorous [ˈhjuːmərəs]

adj

1. funny; comical; amusing

2. displaying or creating humour

3. Archaic another word for capricious

humorously adv

humorousness n

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Adj.

humorous - full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein"

humourous

pleasing - giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance"

humorless, humourless, unhumorous - lacking humor; "it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"- Truman Capote

humorous

adjective funny, comic, amusing, entertaining, witty, merry, hilarious, ludicrous, laughable, farcical, whimsical, comical, droll, facetious, jocular, side-splitting, waggish, jocose a humorous magazine
serious, earnest, sad, grave, sober, solemn

Translations

humorous [ˈhjuːmərəs] ADJ [person] → gracioso, divertido; [book, story] → divertido; [situation, idea, tone] → cómico, gracioso

humorous [ˈhjuːmərəs] adj

[remark, book, film] → humoristique

[person] → plein(e) d'humour

humorous

adj person, speech, comment → humorvoll; book, story etc also, situation → lustig, komisch; idea, thought → witzig; smile, programme → lustig, heiter; to see the humorous side of something → die lustige or komische Seite an etw (dat) → sehen

humorous [ˈhjuːm/ərəs] adj (person) → spiritoso/a; (book, story) → divertente, umoristico/a; (tone) → scherzoso/a

humorous → فكاهى vtipný morsom humorvoll κεφάτος humorístico humoristinen comique humorističan divertente ユーモアのある 유머가 풍부한 humoristisch humoristisk humorystyczny cómico, cômico юмористический rolig ตลกขบขัน nükteli hài hước 富幽默感的

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amusing
Buffoonish
clownlike
comical
droll
facetious
funny
Gilbertian
Holmes
humorless
humourous
jocose
jocular
laughable
Leacock
punch line
risible
seriocomic
seriocomical

And Dolly, who had inherited her father's gift of humorous storytelling, made Varenka helpless with laughter as she related for the third and fourth time, always with fresh humorous additions, how she had only just put on her new shoes for the benefit of the visitor, and on going into the drawing room, heard suddenly the rumble of the trap.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

But the most ordinary cause of a single life, is liberty, especially in certain self-pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters, to be bonds and shackles.

The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context

Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel in pitchpoling.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

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