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Noun: humor hyoomur Usage: US (=humour)
- A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- wit, humour [Brit, Cdn], witticism, wittiness, drollness - 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" - humour [Brit, Cdn], sense of humor [N. Amer], sense of humour [Brit, Cdn] - A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
"he was in a bad humor" - temper, mood, humour [Brit, Cdn] - The quality of being funny
"I fail to see the humor in it" - humour [Brit, Cdn] - (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" - humour [Brit, Cdn] - The liquid parts of the body
- liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humour [Brit, Cdn] Verb: humor hyoomur Usage: US (=humour)
- Put into a good mood
- humour [Brit, Cdn]
Derived forms: humors, humored, humoring See also: humoral, humoring [US], humorist, humorous Type of: body substance, content, feeling, fun, gratify, indulge, message, pander, playfulness, quality, subject matter, substance Encyclopedia: Humor |