humorousとは

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.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, “Of the affection of fathers to their children”, in Essayes, book II, printed at London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, page 212:

     It is a melancholy humor […] that firſt put this humorous conceipt [transl. resverie] of writing into my head.

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