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humorous

adjective

  1. showing humor or a sense thereof
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːməɹəs/

adj

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

  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. Damp or watery.
  4. 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.