humorous
adjective
characterized by humor; funny; comical.
humorousness
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a word derived from
humorous.
Example Sentences
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They trained models on pairs of text snippets that people ranked for their relative humorousness.
From Science Magazine ● May 5, 2022
At various points of time as the storm progressed, different online survey participants rated the humorousness of the tweets on one scale and their offensiveness on another.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2014
It's the supposed "humorousness" of his Washington Sketch columns that made them so embarrassing.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2010
The youngsters, not immediately within sight, seemed rather bright and desirable appurtenances than otherwise; the incidents of daily life were not without humorousness and jollity in their aspect there.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
His observations on the character of different nations were very liberal; marking their various traits, their virtues and vices, with playful humorousness, quite free from bigotry, or narrow prejudice.
From The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms
