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humour

Nouns

• (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
  mood, temper, humor,
• (n) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter humor, wit, witticism, wittiness,
• (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
  humor,
• (n) the liquid parts of the body bodily fluid, body fluid, liquid body substance, humor,
• (n) the quality of being funny
  • I fail to see the humor in it
  humor,
• (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, humor,

Verbs

• (v) put into a good mood humor,

Synonyms

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

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