Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: humorous
IPA transcription: [hj'umɚəs]
Pronunciations of humorous
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: humorous, humourous
    Meaning: full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein"
Usage examples
  • An expression of mildly humorous surprise
  • He seemed to hear some one make a humorous remark in a low tone.
  • That had been Burne, dynamically humorous, fundamentally serious.
  • "The stranger's got the peedoddles," said a fourth, with humorous gravity.
  • When next morning, he read the humorous account in the Patriot and Clarion, he saw still more clearly what chance he would have had before the public in a fight with the railroad company.
  • But there is no humorous comment to be made upon the barrister--unless it is to call him "my learned friend." He has much more right than the actor to claim to be a member of the profession.
  • It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
  • He learned by their parlance and Bible phrases to construct "short sentences of small words," but he had all along the idea that "the plain people are more easily influenced by a broad and humorous illustration than in any other way."
  • But the most ordinary cause of a single life, is liberty, especially in certain self-pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters, to be bonds and shackles.
  • He spoke the heart of the crew; the sleeping wolf in them had been awakened by the struggle, and blood they would have; and not frantically, like Celts or Egyptians, but with the cool humorous cruelty of the Teuton, they rose altogether, and turning Philammon over on his back, deliberated by what death he should die.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hogettes, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Krampus, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording ToeJam & Earl, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Lolcat, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Billboard, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cyberpunk, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Calvin and Hobbes, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Three Laws of Robotics, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Simpsons, License CC BY-SA 4.0