Difference between Jocular and Humorous

What is the difference between Jocular and Humorous?

Jocular as an adjective is humorous, amusing or joking. while Humorous as an adjective is full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.

Jocular

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Humorous, amusing or joking.

Humorous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.Showing humor; witty, jocular.Damp or watery.

Example sentence: With 'Badhaai Ho,' the lines are so quirky and the situation is so humorous, awkward, and bizarre that people are taking away a lot from the film. The dialogues are amazing. We aren't trying to make people laugh, but the situation is like that, that people are laughing.

We hope you now know whether to use Jocular or Humorous in your sentence.

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