humor
a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical: He is completely without humor.
an instance of being or attempting to be comical or amusing; something humorous: The humor in his joke eluded the audience.
the faculty of expressing the amusing or comical: The author's humor came across better in the book than in the movie.
comical writing or talk in general; comical books, skits, plays, etc.
humors, peculiar features; oddities; quirks: humors of life.
mental disposition or temperament.
a temporary mood or frame of mind: The boss is in a bad humor today.
a capricious or freakish inclination; whim or caprice; odd trait.
(in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution.
any animal or plant fluid, whether natural or morbid, as the blood or lymph.
to comply with the mood or desires of in order to soothe or make more content or agreeable: Children can sense when you’re just humoring them instead of taking them seriously.You've heard this a hundred times, but please humor me while I tell you again.
to adapt or accommodate oneself to.
Idioms about humor
out of humor, displeased; dissatisfied; cross: The chef is feeling out of humor again and will have to be treated carefully.
Origin of humor
1- Also especially British, humour .
synonym study For humor
Other words for humor
Opposites for humor
Other words from humor
- hu·mor·ful, adjective
- hu·mor·less, adjective
- hu·mor·less·ly, adverb
- hu·mor·less·ness, noun
- out·hu·mor, verb (used with object)
- pre·hu·mor, noun, verb (used with object)
- un·hu·mored, adjective
- well-hu·mored, adjective
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How to use humor in a sentence
Ancient ideas that held that tears were one way to get rid of bad humors continue to surface.
A Renaissance writer claimed that it purged “poisoned humors, drying away contagious diseases.”
Swimming to Health? Excerpt of Lynn Sherr’s ‘Swim: Why We Love the Water’ | Lynn Sherr | April 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHamilton also argued that judges would be a “safeguard against occasional ill humors in the society.”
Then they continue to prick the body, and, as they say, they draw off or suck out the humors until the body is left dry.
Variance appeared to be necessary to their existence; a safety-valve, for the ill humors they could not throw out upon others.
Alone | Marion Harland
He delivered lectures, wrote tracts and essays, gave vent to his humors, and nursed his ailments.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII | John LordIf she could only get her Uncle Edward quite by himself, and when he was in the best of good humors, he might give her some money.
A Very Naughty Girl | L. T. MeadeAnger is the motion of the spirit within the body toward the outside, together with the blood and the humors.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac Husik
Scientific definitions for humor
[ hyōō′mər ]
One of the four fluids of the body-blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile-whose relative proportions were thought in ancient and medieval medicine to determine general health and character.
word history
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Cultural definitions for humor
Notes for humor
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Other Idioms and Phrases with humor
see out of sorts (humor).
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