humorously

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US/ˈhju.məɹ.ɪs.li/

adverb

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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Meanings

adverbhumorously (comparative more humorously, superlative most humorously)

comparative more humorously · superlative most humorously · alternative humourously

  1. In a humorous manner; jocularly.

    He always managed to make people laugh at the tea table - he could pull faces so humorously.

    1 more example

    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: jocularly, jokingly, amusingly

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbIn a humorous manner; jocularly.

Opposite

More synonyms by meaning

adverbin a humorous manner

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Englishhumorous
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishhumorously

From humorous + -ly.

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