humorous

English

Etymology

From Middle French humoreux, from Old French humor, from Latin hūmor.

Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: hyo͞o'mərəs, IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməɹɪs/
Homophone: humerus

Adjective

humorous (comparative more humorous, superlative most humorous)

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.
(obsolete) Damp or watery.
(obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, “Of the affection of fathers to their children”, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821, page 212:
  It is a melancholy humor […] that firſt put this humorous conceipt [transl. resverie] of writing into my head.

Usage notes

While the spelling humour is preferred over humor in British English, humorous is standard in both American and British English, and humourous is nonstandard.

Synonyms

(arousing laughter): amusing, funny
(witty): amusing, jocular, witty
See also Thesaurus:funny
See also Thesaurus:witty

Derived terms

humorously

Related terms

humor, humour

Translations

full of humor or arousing laughter; funny

Bulgarian: хумористичен (bg) (humorističen)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 幽默 (zh) (yōumò)
Czech: vtipný (cs)
Finnish: humoristinen (fi)
French: humoristique (fr), amusant (fr)
Galician: humorístico m
German: humorvoll (de)
Greek: αστείος (el) m (asteíos), κωμικός (el) m (komikós)
Indonesian: kelakar (id)

Irish: greannmhar
Italian: umoristico (it), divertente (it), esilarante (it)
Japanese: ユーモラス (yūmorasu), こっけい (kokkei), ユーモアのある (ja) (yūmoa no aru)
Latvian: jocīgs, smieklīgs
Norwegian:
Bokmål: humoristisk (no)

Nynorsk: humoristisk
Romanian: umoristic (ro), hazliu (ro)
Russian: юмористи́ческий (ru) (jumoristíčeskij), заба́вный (ru) (zabávnyj), смешно́й (ru) (smešnój)
Tagalog: mabalantong, nakakatawa

showing humor; witty, jocular

Bulgarian: смешен (bg) (smešen), комичен (bg) (komičen)
Finnish: humoristinen (fi), vitsikäs (fi)
German: humorvoll (de)

Greek: αστείος (el) m (asteíos), ευτράπελος (el) m (eftrápelos), πνευματώδης (el) m (pnevmatódis)
Tagalog: mabalantong

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