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humorously

/ˈhju.məɹ.ɪs.li/

humorously adverb: in a humorous manner; jocularly.

Adverb

humorously (comparative more humorously, superlative most humorously)

  1. In a humorous manner; jocularly
    • He always managed to make people laugh at the tea table - he could pull faces so humorously.
    • 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

humorously meaning in Urdu

humorously in Urdu

مذاقاً

Examples of humorously in a sentence

  • Although most hyperforeignisms are accidental, there are some intentional ones, such as Target being humorously called "Tarjay."
  • The creative spelling of baby names is often humorously described by Redditors as a Tragedeigh for the child and a Travesteigh of creativity.
  • Reno humorously cautions against going “Trumpster diving” for our next president (p. 38).

All 11 example sentences with humorously

Synonyms of humorously

Antonyms

Forms of humorously

comparativemore humorously
superlativemost humorously
alternative formhumourously

Origin of humorously

From humorous + -ly.

Questions about humorously

What does humorously mean?
Humorously means in a humorous manner; jocularly.
What is humorously in Urdu?
Humorously in Urdu is مذاقاً. See Humorously meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is humorously?
Humorously is an adverb.
How do you pronounce humorously?
Humorously is pronounced /ˈhju.məɹ.ɪs.li/ (US).

Words near humorously in the dictionary

  1. humorlessly
  2. humorlessness
  3. humorologist
  4. humorology
  5. humorous
  6. humorously
  7. humorousness
  8. humorousnesses
  9. humors
  10. humorsome
  11. humorsomely

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humorously (page history and authors); humorously (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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