humorously

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English humorous Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English humorously From humorous + -ly.

1. In a humorous manner; jocularly

   “He always managed to make people laugh at the tea table - he could pull faces so humorously.”

   “But let’s fast-forward two decades and look at a couple of interesting tokiponidos (as these descendants are humorously termed) that were both proposed in mid 2020.”