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humor
[ hyoo-meror, often, yoo- ]
noun
- 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.
verb (used with object)
- 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.
Antonyms: restrain, discipline
- to adapt or accommodate oneself to.
humor
/ hyo̅o̅′mər /
- See aqueous humor
- See vitreous humor
- 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.
Notes
Other Words From
- 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
Word History and Origins
Word History
Idioms and Phrases
- out of humor, displeased; dissatisfied; cross:
The chef is feeling out of humor again and will have to be treated carefully.
More idioms and phrases containing humor
see out of sorts (humor) .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.
There was poop humor—literally—when Valerie's house becomes flooded with fecal matter after a pipe bursts.
Under the Sun King, such humor—and the laughter associated with it—was seen as more suitable for the masses.
As ever, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show crew encouraged us to find some humor alongside the horror and the shame.
Some cuts, a few slight character changes, an idea or two about putting some humor into the script.
I was a little riled at first myself, but the second and last lady who came out put me in excellent humor.
The gray eyes, once flashing with the light of kindly humor, now softened with sympathy, now glowed with pity.
He was judge of the admiralty court of Pennsylvania; his writings abound with wit, humor and satire.
When Tim hesitates he loses his temper as a sensible man should lose it—he buries it, and his indomitable good humor wins.
He paused, and to illustrate the imperious humor of the Scot, he waved his fingers and a red wrister at me.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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