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adjective
- 1. causing laughter and amusement; comic: "a humorous and entertaining talk"
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Humorous means funny, or making you laugh. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, with synonyms, antonyms, and examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Learn the meaning, synonyms, and usage of the adjective humorous, which means full of or characterized by humor or funniness. See examples of humorous in sentences and compare it with related words like witty and facetious.
Find 120 words that mean humorous, such as funny, witty, and jocular, and their opposites, such as serious, lame, and humorless. Learn how to use humorous and its synonyms in different contexts and contrasts.
- Some common synonyms of humorous are facetious, jocose, jocular, and witty. While all these words mean "provoking or intended to provoke laughter,"...
- While the synonyms facetious and humorous are close in meaning, facetious stresses a desire to produce laughter and may be derogatory in implying d...
- Jocose is somewhat less derogatory than facetious in suggesting habitual waggishness or playfulness. // jocose proposals
- The synonyms jocular and humorous are sometimes interchangeable, but jocular implies a usually habitual fondness for jesting and joking. // a jocul...
- Although the words witty and humorous have much in common, witty suggests cleverness and quickness of mind. // a witty remark
- I got 99 problems ... palsy is just one. 13 minutes 59 seconds. "I have cerebral palsy. I shake all the time," Maysoon Zayid announces at the beginning of this exhilarating, hilarious talk.
- Nerdcore comedy. 18 minutes 43 seconds. Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping people create and interact using simple, addictive web tools.
- A theory of everything. 22 minutes 38 seconds. Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects.
- Inside the mind of a master procrastinator. 13 minutes 54 seconds. Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn't make sense, but he's never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done.
Humorous is a fine tone for toasting at your friend’s wedding, but not so much for the reading of someone's last will and testament. When we talk about humor, we’re usually talking about something funny. But originally the word humorous had to do with the body’s humors, or moods.
Humorous, witty, facetious, waggish imply something that arises from cleverness or a sense of fun. Humorous implies a genuine sense of fun and the comic, impersonal, or gently personal: a humorous version of an incident; a humorous view of life.
Learn the meaning, pronunciation and usage of the adjective humorous, which means funny or showing a sense of humour. See synonyms, example sentences and collocations with humorous.
