Humor

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  Four fluids (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  A mood, especially a bad mood.
 * He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon.
 * 1)  Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

Verb

 * : 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
 * amusingness, comedy, comicality, wit
 * bodily fluid
 * pleasantry, temper, disposition, temperate, mood, caprice, fancy, badinage, banter, drollery, raillery, jesting, chaff, jocosity, jocularity, waggery, comicality, whimsicality, facetious­ness, jest, joke, quip
 * pleasantry, temper, disposition, temperate, mood, caprice, fancy, badinage, banter, drollery, raillery, jesting, chaff, jocosity, jocularity, waggery, comicality, whimsicality, facetious­ness, jest, joke, quip

verb
 * indulge, favor, placate, oblige, satisfy, yield (to), pamper, spoil, pet, please

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

 * humid
 * humidity
 * humorism
 * humorist
 * humorous
 * black humor
 * sense of humor
 * toilet humour
 * gallows humour

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

 * humour

Etymology
From <  humor: <  humor:, correctly umor: < humere:, correctly umere:.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: humor
 * Cebuano: kataw'anan
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: humuro
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 * French:
 * German:, ,


 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: humor, lelucon
 * Interlingua: humor
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 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: гумор


 * Catalan: humor
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 * Italian:


 * Catalan: humor
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: humor, lelucon


 * Interlingua: humor
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: humør
 * Polish: humor
 * Portuguese:


 * Catalan: humor vitri
 * Italian:


 * : настроение
 * : 笑い話 (わらいばなし, waraibanashi), 笑い (わらい, warai), ふき

Verb

 * Bulgarian:
 * German: erheitere, nachgebend


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Anagrams

 * mohur

Noun

 * 1) humor, humour  source of amusement

Derived terms

 * humorný
 * humorista
 * smysl pro humor

Noun

 * 1) humour (something funny)

Noun

 * 1) humour, humor

Derived terms

 * akasztófahumor
 * humorérzék

Noun

 * 1) liquid, fluid, humour

Noun

 * 1) humour
 * 2) mood (mental state)

Noun

 * 1) mood (mental state)

Etymology
From humor:.

Noun

 * 1)  humor

Noun

 * 1) mood
 * 2) humor

Related terms

 * humo
 * humorismo
 * humorístico
 * humorísta

Etymology
Originally from Latin humor:, having bodily fluids in good balance, as used in humör:. The joking sense was derived in England in Shakespeare's time and has been used in Swedish since 1812.

Noun

 * 1) humour (a sense of making jokes)

Related terms

 * galghumor
 * humoresk
 * humorfri
 * humorist
 * humoristisk