humor

Nouns

  • (n) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter wit, witticism, wittiness, humour,
  • (n) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
    • she didn't appreciate my humor
    • you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor
    sense of humor, sense of humour, humour,
  • (n) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
    • whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time
    • he was in a bad humor
    humour, mood, temper,
  • (n) the quality of being funny
    • I fail to see the humor in it
    humour,
  • (n) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
    • the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile
    humour,
  • (n) the liquid parts of the body bodily fluid, body fluid, liquid body substance, humour,

Verbs

  • (v) put into a good mood humour,

Synonyms

humour wit witticism wittiness sense of humor sense of humour mood temper bodily fluid body fluid liquid body substance

Words of close approximity

Hume hump
human humic humid humin humus
humoral humoral immune response humoring humorist humorless humorlessly humorous humorously humorousness