Humor
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English
Noun
Humor (plural Humors)- (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
- She has a great sense of humor, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.
- The sensitive subject was treated with humor, but in such way that no one was offended.
- (archaic) Four fluids (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
- M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40
- For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
- M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40
- (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood.
- He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon.
- (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
Verb
Humor (third-person singular simple present Humors, present participle Humoring, simple past and past participle Humored)
- (transitive): To pacify by indulging.
- I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
Adjectives for Humor
gay; ironic; wonted; savage; drawling; malicious; lively; cantankerous; dismal; sportive; piquant; homely; arrogant; mingled; delighted; good; robust; devastating; oppressive; mixed; clumsy; puppy; whimsical; tender; resistless; genial; boisterous; bubbling; caustic; pestilent; parched; jeering; grave; playful; unhappy; gentle; satirical; headstrong; frank; companionable; unaccountable; secondhand; good-natured; capricious; obliging; black; little; melancholy; arresting; pleasant; ponderous; audacious; grim; true; spleeny; splenetic; cynical; acrid; biting; fertile; irresistible; lordly; proper; sarcastic; racy; inexhaustible; overwhelming; excellent; charming; fiery; delightful; vile; morbid; insolent; grotesque; fantastical; broad; quizzical; seditious; grave; holiday; unruffled; sly; subtle; bawdy; effervescent; ironic; fickle; reigning; buoyant; ebullient; ill-concealed; quaint; impatient; serious; flattering; irrepressible; admirable; sneering; ready; quiet; wholesome; fireside; mocking; reckless; testy; bitter; coarse; choice; sectional; unconfined; sanguine; unfailing; trading; gossiplike; querulous; careless; salty; unquarrelsome; sardonic; irregular; universal; exquisite; farcical; Rabelaisian; aqueous; comparative; limited; pitiless; painful; acute; sullen; toplofty; spontaneous; sulphurous; meditative; burlesque; irreverent; unhappy; bizarre; corresponding.
Verbs for Humor
appreciate—; attempt—; bar—; color with—; conceive—; delight in—; disdain—; execute—; indulge in—; milk dry of—; regale with—; sense—in; subdue—; subtilize—; tame—; —abates; —bores; —eases; —effervesces; —enlivens; —flashes; —flows; —palls; —pales; —penetrates; —ruffles; — scintillates; —shines through; —wanes; — wears thin.
Adverbs for Humor
patronizingly; slyly; indulgently; consciously; ironically; maliciously; whimsically; grotesquely; fantastically; subtly; mockingly; coarsely; sardonically; irreverently.
Synonyms for Humor
noun
- (quality of being amusing): amusingness, comedy, comicality, wit
- (archaic bodily fluids): bodily fluid
- (liquid regions of the eye):
- pleasantry, temper, disposition, temperate, mood, caprice, fancy, badinage, banter, drollery, raillery, jesting, chaff, jocosity, jocularity, waggery, comicality, whimsicality, facetiousness, jest, joke, quip
verb
Antonyms for Humor
- (noun) dullness, heaviness, stupidity, moroseness, slowness, taciturnity, obtuseness, depression, sadness, gloom, sullenness, melancholy, low spirits
- (verb) refuse, disagree, disoblige, deny, irritate, provoke, affront, exasperate, enrage, defy, resist
Related terms
Thesaurus
Atticism, Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor, agile wit, ambiversion, antibody, antigen, appease, arterial blood, baby, banter, bay, bee, black humor, blood, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture, blood platelet, blood pressure, blood serum, blood substitute, bloodmobile, bloodstream, body-build, bogginess, boutade, brainstorm, brand, burlesque, capriccio, caprice, caricature, cast, cater to, chaffing, character, characteristic, characteristics, chitchat, chyle, circulation, clinical dextran, cocker, coddle, colostrum, comedy, comicality, comicalness, complexion, composition, conceit, constituents, constitution, cosset, cotton, crank, crasis, craze, crazy idea, crotchet, cue, cycloid personality, cyclothymia, damp, dampness, dewiness, dextran, dharma, diathesis, discharge, disposition, drollery, drollness, dry wit, ectomorphism, ectomorphy, endomorphism, endomorphy, erythrocyte, esprit, ethos, extroversion, extrovertedness, exudation, facetiousness, fad, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, farce, favor, fiber, flimflam, flippancy, fogginess, fool notion, frame, frame of mind, freak, freakish inspiration, funniness, gags, genius, give way to, gleet, globulin, gore, grain, gratify, grume, habit, harebrained idea, heart, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, hue, humectation, humorousness, humors, ichor, ilk, individualism, individuality, indulge, ingoingness, introversion, introvertedness, irony, isoantibody, jesting, jocoseness, jocularity, jocundity, jokes, joking, jolly, kidding, kind, kink, lachryma, lactation, lampoon, leukocyte, leukorrhea, levity, lifeblood, lightness, ludicrousness, lymph, maggot, makeup, marshiness, matter, megrim, mesomorphism, mesomorphy, milk, mind, mistiness, moistiness, moistness, moisture, mold, mollify, mollycoddle, mood, morale, mucor, mucus, nature, neutrophil, nimble wit, note, notion, oblige, opsonin, other-directedness, outgoingness, pamper, parody, passing fancy, peccant humor, personality, personality tendency, phagocyte, phlegm, physique, placate, plasma, plasma substitute, pleasantry, please, pretty wit, property, purulence, pus, quality, quick wit, quirk, raillery, rainfall, raininess, ready wit, red corpuscle, repartee, rheum, saliva, salt, sanies, sarcasm, satire, satisfy, savor of wit, schizoid personality, schizothymia, serous fluid, serum, showeriness, slapstick, slapstick humor, snot, soddenness, sogginess, somatotype, soothe, soppiness, sort, spirit, spirits, spoil, squib, stamp, state of mind, strain, streak, stripe, subtle wit, suchness, suppuration, swampiness, sweat, syntony, system, tear, teardrop, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, the whites, tone, toy, travesty, type, type O, urine, vagary, vein, venous blood, visual humor, waggishness, wateriness, way, wet, wetness, wettishness, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, white corpuscle, wit, wittiness, yield to
Alternative forms
- (British) humour
Etymology
From Middle English < Old French humor < Latin humor, correctly umor (“moisture”) < humere, correctly umere (“to be moist”).
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External links
- Wikipedia article on humor
- Wikipedia article on humors
- Humor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Humor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Humor at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
Humor m.
Derived terms
- humorný m.
- humorista m.
- smysl pro humor m.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
Humor
- humour (something funny)
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Noun
Humor (plural Humorok)
- humour, humor
Declension
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Derived terms
Latin
Noun
hūmor (genitive hūmōris); m, third declension
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hūmor | hūmōrēs |
| genitive | hūmōris | hūmōrum |
| dative | hūmōrī | hūmōribus |
| accusative | hūmōrem | hūmōrēs |
| ablative | hūmōre | hūmōribus |
| vocative | hūmor | hūmōrēs |
Verb
humor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of humō
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈxumɔr]
Noun
Humor m.
Declension
Portuguese
Noun
Humor m.
- mood (mental state)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From English humor.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /xǔmor/
- Hyphenation: hu‧mor
Noun
hùmor m. (Cyrillic spelling ху̀мор)
Declension
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | humor |
| genitive | humora |
| dative | humoru |
| accusative | humor |
| vocative | humore |
| locative | humoru |
| instrumental | humorom |
Spanish
Noun
- mood
- humor
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Swedish
Etymology
Originally from Latin humor (“fluid”), having bodily fluids in good balance, as used in humör (“mood, temper”). The joking sense was derived in England in Shakespeare's time and has been used in Swedish since 1812.
Pronunciation
Noun
Humor c.
- humour (a sense of making jokes)
Declension
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References
- humor, humör in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.
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