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Definition: Humorously |
HumorouslyAdverb1. In a humorous manner; "Dickens had humorously suggested a special service of intercession at St. Paul's Cathedral". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "humorously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonym: HumorouslySynonym: with humor (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: humorlessly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Humorously |
| English words defined with "humorously": bawdy ♦ Cabbage head ♦ dry ♦ Humorsomely ♦ ironic, ironical, It ♦ jest, joke ♦ off-color ♦ ribald ♦ Squireen ♦ Versemonger ♦ Weaker vessel, with humor, worthy, wry ♦ Zambo. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "humorously": @Begin ♦ Accius Navius ♦ cokebottle ♦ depeditate ♦ Lorbrulgrud ♦ National Television Standards Committee ♦ recursive acronym ♦ Widow. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "humorously": speechifier, Squireen. (references) |
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Theater & Movies | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Humorously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Humorously" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 51 | 47,619 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "humorously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | humorvoll (amusing, humorous), humoristische. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | umorouslyhay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Humorously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: humourously, murmurously. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "humorously" (pronounced hyuw"meruslē) |
| 5 | -er u s l ē | dangerously, generously, rigorously, vigorously, vociferously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, deliciously, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, furiously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, harmoniously, hellaciously, helplessly, hideously, hilariously, hopelessly, horrendously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, jealously, judiciously, laboriously, listlessly, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, mysteriously, needlessly, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, seriously, shamelessly, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-l-m-o-o-r-s-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: humorous. | |
-3 letters: humours, ormolus. | |
-4 letters: hourly, humors, humour, mohurs, ormolu, sholom, sourly. | |
-5 letters: holms, homos, hooly, horsy, hours, humor, humus, hurls, hurly, looms, lours, loury, lousy, mohur, mools, moors, moory, mousy, muhly, mushy, osmol, rooms, roomy, rushy, shool, shorl, shoyu, solum, surly, usury, yours. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 75 6D 6F 72 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01110101 01101101 01101111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H u m o r o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0075 006D 006F 0072 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42877981848187857891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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