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
This tragic humorousness had the double effect of showing us the dilemma, and taking the edge off the horror of it.
From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Herbert Quick
Belief in the general humorousness of the human race is the more deep-rooted for that every man is certain that he himself is not without sense of humour.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
