Meanings
comparative more humorously · superlative most humorously · alternative humourously
- In a humorous manner; jocularly.
He always managed to make people laugh at the tea table - he could pull faces so humorously.
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But let’s fast-forward two decades and look at a couple of interesting tokiponidos (as these descendants are humorously termed) that were both proposed in mid 2020.
2022 March 28, Simon Davies, “Conlang Excursions 5: Making a Good Thing Better”, in ESF Connected
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin a humorous manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishhumorous
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishhumorously
Cite this entry
humorously. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humorously
“humorously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humorously. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “humorously,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humorously.
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