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humorous

adj
/ˈhjuːməɹəs/UK/ˈhjuːməɹəs/US

Etymology

From Middle English humorous (compare Medieval Latin hūmorōsus), equivalent to humor + -ous.

  1. inherited from humorous

Definitions

  1. Full of humor or arousing laughter

    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

    Showing humor; witty, jocular.

  3. Damp or watery.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood

      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.

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Derived

humorously, humorousness, nonhumorous, semihumorous, unhumorous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at humorous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01humorous02funny03comical04whimsically05whimsical06whimsy07playfully08playful

A definitional loop anchored at humorous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at humorous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA