humorous
adjective
- showing humor or a sense thereof
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English humorous (compare Medieval Latin hūmorōsus), equivalent to humor + -ous.
- Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
“The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.”
- Showing humor; witty, jocular.
- Damp or watery.
- 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.”