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humor

noun

1 humor

A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.

synonyms: humour, wit, witticism, wittiness.

Roget 842: wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry.    ... show more

Roget 608: caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, ... show more

Roget 333: fluidity, liquidity; liquidness etc. adj.; gaseity etc. 334.    fluid, inelastic fluid; liquid, liquor; lymph, ... show more

Dutch: kwinkslag, geestigheid

2 humor

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.

synonyms: humour, sense of humor, sense of humour.

Dutch: gevoel voor humor, humor
Polish: humor, poczucie humoru

3 humor

A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling:
— He was in a bad humor.

synonyms: humour, mood, temper.

Roget 820: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, ... show more

Roget 602: willingness, voluntariness etc. adj.; willing mind, heart.    disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood, ... show more

Roget 176: tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, ... show more

Roget 5: intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; egohood; essence, noumenon; essentialness etc. adj.; essential part, quintessence, ... show more

Dutch: karakter, uitharden, gemoed, bui, dispositie, geestesgesteldheid, humeur, luim, stemming
Polish: humor, nastrój, samopoczucie, stan, usposobienie

4 humor

The quality of being funny:
— I fail to see the humor in it.

synonym: humour.

Dutch: stemming

5 humor

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.

synonym: humour.

Dutch: humeur

6 humor

The liquid parts of the body.

synonyms: bodily fluid, body fluid, humour, liquid body substance.

Dutch: lichaamsvloeistof
Polish: płyn ustrojowy

verb

1 humor

Put into a good mood.

synonym: humour.

Roget 705: be easy etc. adj.; go on smoothly, run smoothly; have full play etc. n.; go on all fours, run on all fours; obey the helm, work well.    flow with the stream, swim with the stream, ... show more

Roget 933: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, ... show more

Roget 829: cause pleasure, produce pleasure, create pleasure, give pleasure, afford pleasure, procure pleasure, offer pleasure, present pleasure, yield pleasure etc. 827.    please, charm, delight, ... show more

Roget 707: aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid etc. n.. of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, ... show more

Roget 760: permit; give permission etc. n., give power; let, allow, admit; suffer, bear with, tolerate, recognize; concede etc. ... show more


Moby 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 ... show more.

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