English dictionary

humor

/'h/j//u/m/@/r/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

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

noun.communication

Synonyms humour wit witticism wittiness

Source: WordNet 3.0
the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous

noun.attribute

Examples
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

Source: WordNet 3.0
a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

noun.feeling

Examples
He was in a bad humor.

Synonyms humour mood temper

Source: WordNet 3.0
the quality of being funny

noun.attribute

Examples
I fail to see the humor in it.

Synonyms humour

Source: WordNet 3.0
(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state

noun.body

Examples
The humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile.

Source: WordNet 3.0
the liquid parts of the body

noun.body

Synonyms bodily fluid body fluid humour liquid body substance

Source: WordNet 3.0
Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the <i>humors</i> of the eye, etc.

noun

Source: webster1913

put into a good mood

verb.communication

Source: WordNet 3.0
To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to <i>humor</i> the mind.

verb

Source: webster1913