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humorousness

/hyoo-mer-uhs or, often, yoo-/US // ˈhyu mər əs or, often, ˈyu- //UK // (ˈhjuːmərəs) //

幽默感,幽默,诙谐

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by humor; funny; comical: a humorous anecdote.
    • : having or showing the faculty of humor; droll; facetious: a humorous person.

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Examples

  • After he caricatured the Marx brothers, the film studio sought to restyle Groucho to look more like a humorous Hirschfeld.

  • We described the second video as either humorous or boring, and then asked them how long they thought each video would feel like it lasted.

  • Former Mayor Jerry Sanders – or Darren Pudgil, the spokesman who delivered this quote – comes out looking sensible and humorous while reframing the whole debacle such that it’s hard to imagine this ending up any other way.

  • Manansala has created just that with her debut novel, a tale full of eccentric characters, humorous situations and an oh-so-tricky mystery.

  • He’d let Schaefer vent, then calmly ask him questions or make a humorous remark.

  • In fact, she also launched a humorous series “Ask Lena” on YouTube where she gives sage advice on feminism in episode one.

  • The sniper barely missed, and Steven relayed the story as equal parts humorous and traumatic.

  • Libyans are by and large charming, charismatic, humorous people with a Mediterranean joie de vivre.

  • Austen, Eliot, and James sometimes complemented their essential seriousness with humorous minor characters and subplots.

  • Mollen, an actress, first got her literary start by way of a humorous incident, naturally.

  • "You positively convulse me, you're so very humorous," said Robinson, without a vestige of a smile.

  • Perhaps our comic papers have never heard of the Improvement Clubs, or find nothing in them that is humorous.

  • He was fond of the pathetic, but the humorous moved him most, and his lively gifts were welcome wherever we went.

  • Aunt Ri gazed at her with a sentiment as near to veneration as her dry, humorous, practical nature was capable of feeling.

  • Her hazel eyes were very round for a moment, then they narrowed, and little humorous lines formed at the corners of her lips.