humorous

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There is no such thing as instilling the slightest tact into him But, my dear Lady Mary," rejoined Cottrell, whose sense of the humorous was again highly gratified by the outcome of the trip to Trotbury, "I really cannot see that you have any cause for complaint.

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  1. adjective Full of or characterized by humor; funny: a humorous story.
  2. adjective Employing or showing humor; witty: a humorous writer.
  3. adjective Archaic Given to moods or whims; capricious.

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  1. = Old French humoreux = Provencal humoros = Spanish humoroso = Italian umoroso, humorous, from Late Latin humorosus, correctly umorosus, only in literally sense moist, from Latin humor, umor, moisture: see humor, n.
 

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