| 单词 | humorous |
| 释义 | humorous (once / 618 pages) adj If something is humorous it's funny. Humorous is a fine tone for toasting at your friend’s wedding, but not so much for the reading of someone's last will and testament. When we talk about humor, we’re usually talking about something funny. But originally the word humorous had to do with the body’s humors, or moods. If you’re reading a medieval book on medicine, you might find descriptions of humorous maladies. Those aren’t joke sicknesses. But if anyone born after 1700 says something is humorous, it means they think it's funny. WORD FAMILYhumorous: humorously, humorousness, unhumorous+/humor: humoral, humored, humoring, humorist, humorless, humorous, humors/humored: ill-humored/humorist: humorists/humorless: humorlessly/unhumorous: unhumorously USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s also a show that reflects the diversity of working-class America in a humorous microcosm. Salon(Dec 31, 2016) "Not everyone realised this was a humorous present from RT," the broadcaster said. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) Others were somewhat humorous, like the sweet old lady who pulled me aside at a New Hampshire diner. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) adj full of or characterized by humor humorous stories humorous cartoons in a humorous vein Syn|Ant humourous bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek cleverly amusing in tone buffoonish, clownish, clownlike, zanylike a clown amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risiblearousing or provoking laughter drollcomical in an odd or whimsical manner dry, ironic, ironical, wryhumorously sarcastic or mocking farcical, ludicrous, ridiculousbroadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce Gilbertianwildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas hilarious, screaming, uproariousmarked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter jesting, jocose, jocular, jokingcharacterized by jokes and good humor killing, sidesplittingvery funny seriocomic, seriocomicalmixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating slapstickcharacterized by horseplay and physical action tragicomic, tragicomicalhaving pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics waggishwitty or joking wittycombining clever conception and facetious expression pleasinggiving pleasure and satisfaction humorless, humourless, unhumorous lacking humor sobersidedcompletely lacking in humor or lightness of touch po-facedhumorless and disapproving unfunnynot funny; especially failing to achieve the intended humor |
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