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Amusing vs Humor - What's the difference?

amusing | humor |

As verbs the difference between amusing and humor

is that amusing is present participle of lang=en while humor is an alternative spelling of from=US|lang=en.

As an adjective amusing

is entertaining.

As a noun humor is

an alternative spelling of from=US|lang=en.

amusing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Entertaining.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-21
    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Your gift at Christmas will soon be junk , volume=188, issue=2, page=24 , date=2012-12-10 , magazine= citation , passage=They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For 30 seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.}}
  • Funny, hilarious.

    • Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * unamusing

    Derived terms

    * amusingness

    humor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1763 , (Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz), History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40
    • For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour , when pressed, that portended danger.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
    • I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

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