Humorous vs Tremulous - What's the difference?
humorous | tremulous |
Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
Showing humor; witty, jocular.
(obsolete) Damp or watery.
(obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
*, II.8:
Trembling, quivering, or shaking.
* 1850 , , The Scarlet Letter , ch. 3:
* 1919 , , A Man Four-Square , ch. 27:
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Timid, hesitant, or unconfident.
* 1891 , , The Great Taboo , ch. 15:
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As adjectives the difference between humorous and tremulous
is that humorous is full of humor or arousing laughter; funny while tremulous is trembling, quivering, or shaking.humorous
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Alternative forms
* humourous (unusual )Adjective
(en adjective)- The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.
- It is a melancholy humor of writing into my head.
Synonyms
* (arousing laughter ): amusing, funny * (witty ): amusing, jocular, witty * See also * See alsoDerived terms
* humorouslytremulous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The trying nature of his position drove the blood from his cheek, and made his lips tremulous .
- "Thank God!" he cried brokenly, all the pent emotion of the long night vibrant in his tremulous voice.
- "You have lived here long?" Felix asked, with tremulous interest, as he took a seat.
Opinion: Gourmet to All That," New York Times (retrieved 18 Aug 2012):
- This, hard on the heels of the death of Julia Child in 2004, makes one tremulous about the future.