humorousとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: hyo͞o'mərəs, IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməɹɪs/
• Homophone: humerus

形容詞

humorous (comparative more humorous, superlative most humorous)

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. (obsolete) Damp or watery.
4. (obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
   • c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii], lines 380-83:

     [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.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the affection of fathers to their children”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] 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.

   • 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman

     I felt at this time as if I could have been fond of him too, if he would have let me; but I was timid from my childhood, and before long my dread of his displeasure […] conquered my humorous inclination to love one who was so handsome, so accomplished, so indulgent and devoted.

使用する際の注意点

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

同意語

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

派生語

• humorously

関連する語

• humor, humour